Nepal Winter Apparel Drive
Winter clothing for families displaced by the August flood in Nepal, now sheltering in the Kathmandu valley with nothing. Kathmandu drops close to freezing at night and almost nobody has heating.
The clothing travels as the spare baggage allowance of Singaporeans already flying to Kathmandu. No courier, no freight, no customs broker — just people who happen to be going anyway.
The bottleneck is seats, not clothing
Flying to Kathmandu before mid-November? Start here. Spare baggage allowance is the whole constraint. We have more jackets than we have seats to carry them. If you are travelling — economy or business, a few kilos or twenty — that is the single most useful thing you can offer.
What we take, and what we don't
What we take
- Insulated jackets, down or synthetic — the most needed item by far
- Fleece and mid-layers
- Wind and rain shells
- Thermal base layers
- Warm socks
- Hats, gloves, neck warmers
- Warm trousers
What we don't take
- Footwear — heavy and bulky for the weight it delivers
- Formal and fashion wear
- Anything tropical-weight
- Underwear
- Anything with holes, stains or a broken zip
The test is simple — would you give it to a friend?
You don't need a full set. Send the one good jacket. We combine several donors so that a complete kit arrives even though nobody assembled one.
How it works
| 1 You register | — |
| 2 We check | 48 hrs |
| 3 We match you to a traveller | — |
| 4 Handover | — |
| 5 Kathmandu | — |
Nothing goes into a warehouse. There is no sorting venue: donors pack to the spec at home, and items rest at a drop point for three days at most.
Drop points
Both are X-Boundaries shops, during normal opening hours — after you have been matched, not before.
| Mandarin Gallery | Mon–Sun 11am–8pm |
| Bukit Merah | Mon–Sat 11am–1pm, 2–5pm |
The Kathmandu leg
The receiving arrangement is with TAAN, the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal — a not-for-profit umbrella body founded in 1978, registered with the Social Welfare Council, with more than 2,000 member agencies.
Relief goods travel as the traveller's own personal baggage, so no letter is needed for customs. TAAN collects the items from the traveller's hotel and redistributes them. The traveller is never asked to deliver anything anywhere. Bags rest in hotel storage for three days at most.
Where the kits ultimately go is left to TAAN's judgement on the ground. X-Boundaries does not direct or track the last mile, and says so rather than implying a chain of custody it does not have.
The rules this drive runs on
- Goods only. No money is solicited or accepted anywhere in this campaign, at any stage, including at the drop points.
- The traveller packs. Every item is opened, checked and packed by the traveller themselves, in the donor's presence. No sealed parcels, ever.
- Genuine spare allowance only. Nobody pays excess baggage.
- Three days maximum at a drop point, and three days maximum in hotel storage.
- No distribution events, no recipient photographs, no branding on the ground.
- Donors' names and mobile numbers never leave the system and are published as initials only, if at all.
Items become the property of X-Boundaries on handover. Anything below standard may be declined or recycled at our discretion, and items are not returned.
Register
Short links, safe to share anywhere: x-boundaries.com/nepal-carry for travellers, x-boundaries.com/nepal-donate for donors.
Winter in Kathmandu arrives in November. That is the only clock that matters here.
Questions: lik@x-boundaries.com
See also the Nepal Flood Fund statement of account, which is separate and privately administered.