01Bagmara, Banshkhali
A home gone. Eight people on an embankment.
Abdur Rahim said his home collapsed and his eight-member family had to shelter on the coastal embankment. The flood also destroyed the seedbeds he had worked to prepare.
Emergency appeal · Bangladesh
Escaping the water was only the beginning.
Families are returning to collapsed homes, soaked food, unsafe water, and days of mud and debris. Your gift helps put urgent essentials back into their hands.
Latest verified update: 12 July 2026. Conditions and totals may change as field assessments continue.
Floodwater surrounds homes in Bangladesh, July 2026. Read the Reuters field report
What happened
Eight days of rain pushed water into homes, fields, and roads.
Record rain, flash floods, hill runoff, and landslides spread across southeastern Bangladesh. Some families escaped through deep water. Others were cut off as roads and bridges failed.
As the rain eases, the next emergency is becoming visible: collapsed homes, food and belongings destroyed, unsafe drinking water, and livelihoods washed away.
Government snapshot as of 12:30 pm on 12 July 2026. Figures may change as field assessments continue.
1,022,963
people affected across seven districts
51
lives reported lost
44,457
people staying in shelters
What families experienced
They left with what they could carry. Some returned to no home.
These individual accounts were documented by local reporters in the affected area. They are not presented as confirmed Ruhama recipients; they show the conditions that households across the region are facing.
02Lakkhyarchar, Chakaria
They fled when the water reached neck height.
Nur Mohammad and his family returned after three days to find furniture, important documents, rice, and paddy soaked or destroyed.
03Memberpara, Bandarban
The water left. Mud and filth stayed behind.
After five days stranded, Md Jasim Uddin returned to a home coated in mud and waste, with furniture, food, and household belongings ruined.
What the water did
It entered the places families thought were safe.
First the road disappeared. Then water reached the kitchen, the stored rice, the bed, and the papers a family could not replace.
For a family, flood damage is not a distant statistic. It is food gone, a home unsafe, and no dry place to begin again.
Their situation now
The water is receding. The crisis is not.
Families are cleaning mud from their homes without dry food, safe water, reliable electricity, or basic household supplies. For communities still cut off, even available aid can be difficult to reach.
Safe water
Wells are submerged, and power cuts stop families from pumping groundwater.
What is needed
Drinking water, oral saline, water treatment, and basic hygiene supplies.
Food that is ready now
Stored rice and paddy are soaked, kitchens are damaged, and some markets are out of reach.
What is needed
Dry food and essential groceries that families can use in current conditions.
Health and household essentials
Standing water, debris, and displacement increase health risks, especially for children and older people.
What is needed
First-aid items, essential medicine, baby supplies, and cleaning essentials.
A way to reach them
Damaged roads, bridges, and deep water continue to isolate communities.
What is needed
Last-mile transport so urgent supplies reach cut-off households safely.
What your donation changes
From surviving the flood to having what the next day requires.
Gifts are pooled so local volunteers can respond to the most urgent verified needs as conditions change.
Without urgent support
Wells are submerged, and power cuts stop families from pumping groundwater.
Your gift helps make possible
Drinking water, oral saline, water treatment, and basic hygiene supplies.
Without urgent support
Stored rice and paddy are soaked, kitchens are damaged, and some markets are out of reach.
Your gift helps make possible
Dry food and essential groceries that families can use in current conditions.
Without urgent support
Standing water, debris, and displacement increase health risks, especially for children and older people.
Your gift helps make possible
First-aid items, essential medicine, baby supplies, and cleaning essentials.
Without urgent support
Damaged roads, bridges, and deep water continue to isolate communities.
Your gift helps make possible
Last-mile transport so urgent supplies reach cut-off households safely.
Fund transparency
Exactly how Ruhama will use this appeal.
100%
of the donation goes to families.
Ruhama has no paid staff. Operating and admin costs are covered separately by people who opt in, so this appeal can remain focused on direct flood relief.
Confirm the need
Trusted local volunteers identify flood-affected households and confirm what is most urgent.
Buy for the conditions
Funds are used for safe water, food, health items, household essentials, and the delivery needed to move them.
Deliver directly
Aid is distributed to confirmed families using the safest routes available at the time.
Report back
Donors receive field updates showing what was funded, where support went, and how many families were reached.
What we will report back
Amount raised, aid categories funded, communities reached, number of families served, and field photos or notes when they can be shared safely and with dignity.
If the immediate need is fully met
Remaining funds will support families facing similar urgent needs in Bangladesh. Zakat-marked gifts remain restricted to eligible recipients.
Give now
Help a family face tomorrow with something dry, safe, and theirs.
Your one-time gift joins other donations to fund the most urgent verified needs in flood-affected communities.
100% goes to families
No paid staff. Admin is covered separately. You will receive updates showing how relief funds were used.
$ USD
What $50 can help do
Your gift can help add dry food and household essentials to an emergency package.
Gifts are pooled. Package contents, local prices, and delivery needs vary as conditions change.
Secure payment through Stripe. Ruhama does not store card details.
Reporting, data, and updates
- Floods leave more than one million stranded, Reuters, 11 July 2026
- Field reporting on families returning home and urgent shortages, The Daily Star, 14 July 2026
- Ministry flood situation report via The Business Standard, updated 12 July 2026
- Chattogram Divisional Commissioner damage report via BSS, 12 July 2026
- Needs Assessment Working Group flash update via ReliefWeb, 9 July 2026
- Bangladesh Meteorological Department landslide warning, 8 July 2026