The Hunter's Nepalese community is banding together to mourn flood victims with a candlelight vigil as they pledge to help their devastated homeland recover.
There were 39 Australians missing in Nepal and Tibet as of Friday, after a tidal wave of mud, water and rock, created by a Himalayan glacier avalanche, wiped out entire villages and killed at least 469 people on Thursday.
More than 1300 people remain missing.
Rankin Park mother Reshma Patel, 46, and University of Newcastle medicine students and brothers Rishab Sreedharan Iyer, 23, and Rudhra Sreedharan Iyer, 20, are among the Australians unaccounted for in Nepal.
There are estimated to be about 6000 people of Nepalese background living in the Hunter.
Many are expected to attend a candlelight vigil organised by the Nepalese Community of Newcastle (NCON) at 5pm on Saturday at Jesmond Park.
"We are trying our absolute best to help each other, and everyone is united," NCON president Bhabesh Bhattarai told the Newcastle Herald.
"We've started a fundraising program as well.
"We're trying to find out if there's any victims' family over here and asking if there's any help we can give socially, morally, spiritually, or financially.
"We've ensured them we will definitely help out as much as we can."
Mr Bhattarai said members of the wider Hunter community were also welcome to attend the vigil.
Members of the Nepalese Newcastle Cricket Club, who are part of the Merewether District Cricket Club, will be among the attendees at the vigil.
Cricket club captain and manager Rupak Sapkota said the community was "shocked" by the destruction in Nepal and Tibet.
"Everyone is still processing this," Mr Sapkota said.
"A lot of our friends and family are still out of contact, so it's very hard to talk and ask them to do anything because it's very fragile.
"The community, the cricket club, and all the youngsters are trying to get together.
"We'll be raising funds and everything. There are already links to donate $1 or $5, whatever, because it could make a big difference to people back there because people have lost everything.
"They have no house, no money, no nothing. It's very hard."
Mr Sapkota said there was a flurry of phone calls made to friends and family in Nepal once footage of the destruction hit social media and news outlets on Thursday morning.
"I started getting calls from friends asking, 'Did you get in touch with your family?'" he said.
"I started calling at once, and luckily none of my family members were nearby.
"A few of my friends have lost family members. It's horrible."
Mr Sapkota said his club was coordinating with Merewether to hold a charity cricket match to raise money and food for Nepalese communities devastated by the flash flood.
