Maitri-supported monastics receiving community supplies

URGENT MONASTIC RELIEF · NEPAL

Monastics affected by the flood need help now.

Flooding has left monastic communities without safe shelter, food, clean water, medicine, clothing, and places of practice. Your gift can provide immediate relief.

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Maitri archive photograph; this image does not depict the August 2026 flood.

AN ACT OF MERIT

Let your generosity meet an urgent need.

Every gift supports monastics today and helps sustain community life for generations.

$25

Provide essentials

Help with food, safe water, medicine, and hygiene supplies.

Give $25 →$50

Sustain daily life

Support bedding, clothing, robes, and study materials.

Give $50 →$100

Support community

Help restore safe, stable daily life for monastics.

Give $100 →$500

Strengthen recovery

Provide substantial relief where verified needs are greatest.

Give $500 →$1,000

Advance major recovery

Help meet substantial verified needs across an affected monastic community.

Give $1,000 →

Secure giving through Donorbox · U.S. 501(c)(3) · EIN 88-1720325

EMERGENCY MONASTIC RELIEF

Monasteries have been destroyed. Take part in a historic emergency response.

Flooding has destroyed critical infrastructure and disrupted access to safe shelter, food, clean water, medicine, clothing, bedding, and study materials.

Contributions will be directed through trusted local partners to verified emergency needs, with funding allocated as priorities are confirmed.

Support emergency relief →

AI-generated editorial visualization of a monastic salvaging study materials from a flood-damaged hall — Flood-damaged monastic space · AI-generated editorial visualization

MORE THAN BUILDINGS

When a monastery is lost, a community loses its refuge.

Relief protects daily life now—and helps monastic learning and practice continue for future generations.

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YOUR GIFT CAN HELP NOW

Meet urgent needs

Provide food, safe water, medicine, clothing, hygiene supplies, and temporary shelter.

Sustain monastic life

Replace bedding, robes, texts, study materials, and essential shared supplies.

Strengthen community

Help restore safe places of refuge, learning, and practice.

Monastics standing together outside a community vihara

TRUSTED LOCAL RELATIONSHIPS

Support directed where it is needed most.

The Maitri Project works with monastics and trusted local institutions. Gifts support verified relief needs in affected monastic communities.

The documentary photographs were provided by Maitri and community contacts. The flood-damaged room is clearly labeled as an AI-generated editorial visualization.

THE NEED IS URGENT

Stand with monastics now.

Help provide relief today and sustain monastic community life for generations.

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