Sonu Sood Reaches Flood-Hit Areas and Calls for a “Resolve to Build a Home” Campaign

Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has travelled to Nuwakot with a relief team from Mumbai to help people affected by the Bhotekoshi flood. Before leaving for the flood-hit district, he met victims sheltering at a monastery in Kathmandu and shared photographs from the visit, including images with children.

Sood proposed a “Resolve to Build a Home” campaign to provide housing for people left homeless by the floods. He said his Sood Charity Foundation, working with the Lions Club and Khalsa Aid, had formed a joint team to assess needs directly on the ground.

The organisations have already sent 2,000 blankets, clothing, dry food and women’s health and hygiene items from India to Nepal. Sood said he planned to visit affected areas personally and develop longer-term assistance covering education, health and housing.

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Nepal is going through an extremely difficult time right now. Coming forward to help as much as we can is a humanitarian duty for all of us.

He praised Nepali people for their resilience and hard work, saying that most people who had worked with him in Mumbai over the past 25 to 30 years were Nepali. Their patience and smiles during the disaster, he said, encouraged him to do more.

Sood also linked the growing number of disasters worldwide to climate change, environmental imbalance, exploitation of nature and deforestation. He called for serious conservation efforts to protect future generations. Recalling that his foundation built 257 homes after floods in Punjab, India, he said housing construction would soon begin at identified sites in Nepal as well.

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The impact of showing up in person, holding a survivor’s hand and telling them we stand with you, is far greater than sending help from afar. I’m not here just to assist, but to fulfil my responsibility.