Where to give
Aid groups are asking for cash, not goods — local teams can buy and move supplies as needs change. Each channel below shows who verified it.
Nepal's official government mechanism. By law the money can only go to rescue, treatment, relief, rehabilitation and rebuilding — never administrative costs — and the fund is audited annually. Card, QR, SWIFT and remittance options all listed here.
The most active responder on the ground. Over 200 staff and volunteers are running evacuations, search and rescue, and distributing tarpaulins, blankets, first aid and drinking water. Already reached close to 5,000 people.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Has released emergency funding through its Disaster Response Emergency Fund to back the Nepal Red Cross response, with regional teams on standby to scale up. Easiest option if you hold a foreign card.
Sending from where you live
The PM Relief Fund accepts money five different ways. Pick where you are and use the route that actually works from there.
Use a card, or SWIFT through your bank
Fastest: card payment
- Card gateway. The PMO runs two card portals for donors abroad:
pmdrf.nchl.com.npandpmrelieffund.himalayanbank.com. Type these into your browser yourself rather than clicking a forwarded link. - Or SWIFT. Ten Nepali bank accounts accept international wires. Himalayan Bank Ltd holds the USD-denominated account; the rest are NPR. Get the exact numbers from the PMO page — never from a screenshot.
- Check the account name. Every legitimate account is registered as PRIME MINISTER DISASTER RELIEF FUND. Any other name means stop.
- Prefer a card? Use IFRC instead. If your bank's wire fees are high for a small donation, the IFRC appeal above takes foreign cards directly with no transfer fee.
Use the remittance app you already have
Fastest: remittance transfer
- Open your usual app. GME, Remitly, Wise, TapTapSend and other remittance partners can all send to the designated NPR relief fund accounts.
- Send as a bank transfer, not cash pickup. Choose the bank-deposit option and enter the relief fund account from the PMO page.
- Beneficiary name must read PRIME MINISTER DISASTER RELIEF FUND. If the app shows a different name after you enter the account number, cancel the transfer.
- Keep the receipt. Remittance apps sometimes reverse transfers flagged for review; a reference number lets you follow up.
Remittance app, or Alipay+ wallet QR
Fastest: remittance transfer
- GME and the usual apps work. GME, Remitly, Wise and TapTapSend all route to the NPR relief fund accounts via bank deposit.
- Alipay+ wallets can scan the QR. If you use an Alipay+ wallet or one of its 12 interoperable wallets, the PMO publishes Fonepay, NepalPAY and Smart QR codes linked to the fund.
- Scan the QR only from the PMO's own page. A QR code is unreadable to you — you cannot tell a swapped one by looking. Only scan from opmcm.gov.np, never from a forwarded image.
UPI cross-border transfer
Fastest: UPI P2P
- Use cross-border P2P in your Indian banking app. UPI-enabled apps from Indian banks can remit directly to the designated PM Relief Fund accounts.
- Or scan the published QR. UPI users can scan the Fonepay, NepalPAY or Smart QR codes on the PMO page.
- Only from the official page. Scan directly from opmcm.gov.np, not from a QR image someone sent you.
Check this before you send money
Disaster fundraising is one of the most common scam vectors in the first 48 to 72 hours. Four checks, thirty seconds.
- Type the address yourself Do not trust a link from a message, email or post — including this page. Type opmcm.gov.np, donation.nrcs.org or ifrc.org into your browser and compare.
- The account name never changes All ten official bank accounts are registered under one name: PRIME MINISTER DISASTER RELIEF FUND. A personal name, a company, or a slight variation means it is not the fund.
- Never take account numbers from a screenshot Forwarded PDFs and images are trivially edited, and one changed digit sends your money somewhere else. Read the numbers off the PMO's own page each time.
- Be careful with personal fundraisers Nepal's government and press have both asked people to share verified information rather than unconfirmed reports or old donation links. Unverifiable crowdfunders are where fraud hides during a fast-moving crisis.
How the scams actually work
Nepal Police issued a public warning on 27 August about fraud targeting flood donations. These are the specific tactics they named. If you recognise one, stop and verify.
Requests to deposit into a personal bank account or e-wallet while calling it the “Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund” or “Prime Minister's Relief Fund”. The real fund never uses a personal account.
Fraudsters copy the logos, names and layout of government agencies and circulate altered QR codes on social media. You cannot tell a swapped QR code by looking at it.
Fake pages or groups set up on Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram and Viber under the names of relief funds or donation campaigns.
Callers claiming to register people for relief, then asking for personal or banking details. No genuine relief process asks for your card number, PIN or OTP.
Links built to steal one-time passwords and other credentials. Never share an account number, card detail, PIN or OTP with anyone who asks by phone or message.
Messages from unknown numbers claiming a loved one is safe but urgently needs money. Police advise calling the person directly, or making a video call, before sending anything.
Nepal Police ask anyone who suspects a person or group is running a relief scam to contact their nearest police office or the Nepal Police Cyber Bureau immediately.
Read the police warning →The official PMO notice
The Office of the Prime Minister published a two-page notice listing all five donation mechanisms, the ten bank accounts and the QR codes. A copy is mirrored here so you are not depending on a chat forward — but read the integrity note before you use it.
Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Singhadurbar. Card gateways, Alipay+ and UPI QR codes, cross-border UPI, ten SWIFT accounts, and remittance channels.
A mirrored PDF is exactly the kind of artefact that gets edited and re-forwarded, which is why we publish its SHA-256 fingerprint above. If the file you are holding produces a different fingerprint, it is not this file. The Prime Minister's Office website remains the authority: if this copy and opmcm.gov.np ever disagree, the government site wins and this one is wrong.
Check it yourself — macOS or Linux: shasum -a 256 file.pdf · Windows: certutil -hashfile file.pdf SHA256
Other ways to help
Money is the immediate need, but not the only one.
If you are in or near Nepal
- Volunteer through coordinated channelsAid groups say there is demand for help with shelter management, relief distribution and medical support — through local NGOs or government-coordinated efforts, not independently.
- Stay away from the riversAuthorities have warned people off the banks of the Bhote Koshi, Trishuli and Narayani, and restricted travel on the Prithvi Highway and the Galchhi–Nuwakot–Rasuwa road. Monsoon season means secondary flooding is possible.
Give again in three months
- The need outlasts the news cycleAid officials say that once the rescue phase ends, Nepal will need sustained support for rebuilding homes, restoring infrastructure and providing mental health care to survivors — a process that in past floods has taken months to years. Setting a smaller recurring donation often helps more than one large gift this week.
Official contacts
Published by the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Singhadurbar.