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At This Time of Remembrance, We Salute Them for 200 Years of Bravery No. 45 Winter 2016 A history of fighting side by side 1814-1816: Anglo-Nepalese war 1815: Gurkhas are enlisted into British forces 1817-1818: Pindari War 1845-1846: Anglo-Sikh War 1848-1849: At this time of remembrance, Second Anglo-Sikh War 1857-1859: we salute them for 200 years of bravery Indian Sepoy Rebellion For over 200 years Gurkhas have served alongside British troops. Time and again they've 1878-1880: proved their loyalty and courage, earning 13 Victoria Crosses along the way. In the World Wars they suffered over 40,000 casualties fighting for our freedom. Second Afghan War This Remembrance Day, it's our time to salute their bravery and to repay our nation's 1914-1918: debt of honour to these brave men and their families. World War One 1939-1945: What your support means for veterans World War Two Former Gurkha Rifleman unable to grow much grain 1948-1960: Alai Bura (pictured) sits recently and, as a result, with his treasured kukri in their store room is nearly Malayan Emergency a village called Tharna in empty. Alai’s favourite food western Nepal. Alai is 91. is rice but he is often unable 1962-1966: He enlisted with the to afford it. When we visited Borneo Confrontation Gurkhas in December 1941 him recently, he had run up and fought throughout a small debt at the local 1982: the remainder of WWII. grocery store. The Falklands Conflict Sadly, his wife passed away As part of our commitment Our medical staff two years ago. Since then 2001-2014: to providing financial aid continue to monitor he has lived with his only to Gurkha veterans in Nepal, Alai’s health and ensure Afghanistan son and his family. we were able to pay off Alai’s that he receives the Weather conditions mean debt and help him afford Trust’s Welfare Pension 2003-2011: that his family has been more substantial food. every quarter. Iraq Samachara No. 45 Winter 2016 More support for brave Gurkhas and their Stepping up our support families in Nepal We will be working on 120 clean We hope to finish all 1,200 We're delighted to announce that Every winter we pay a Winter Fuel Our Carer's Allowance is given to families water and sanitation schemes in rebuilds and 500 repairs this all of the grants we provide for Allowance to all our pensioners caring for an elderly pensioner and 2016/17 – 40 more than usual, financial year, although minor Gurkha veterans and widows in to ensure they have the means to covers the additional costs or loss of thanks to an increase in UK aid shocks continue to cause Nepal have increased thanks to your live comfortably during the harsh income. It also has gone up from 2,000 from the British government. new damage. amazing support. Novembers and Decembers in to 2,500 NPR (£18) per month. Nepal. This has now been increased In total, we willl be spending over At the time of writing we provide For over 200 years Gurkhas have served We will also repair the last 32 of from 2,200 NPR to 2,500 NPR (£18) £18 million in Nepal over the year, a monthly Welfare Pension to Britain. Looking after them in their time our water projects damaged by per month. the 2015 earthquakes. including around £3.5 million on around 5,800 veterans and widows of need is the least we can do. our earthquake response. who aren't eligible for the standard We will build two community Army pension and who would This level of aid is only possible A Gurkha widow receives her monthly centres and two extra health otherwise face a life of poverty. posts. The centres provide a hub thanks to the unerring kindness Welfare Pension in Butwal, Nepal for community activity and the and generosity of our supporters, The pension has increased over 10% health posts give those living in who continue to support Gurkha in line with inflation, to 10,000 With my feet now firmly under the remote areas access to vital veterans, widows and communities Nepalese Rupees (NPR), which desk here at GWT HQ, I'm keen to medical care. These will cost us in their time of need. equates to approximately £71.50. The push on and I am delighted to be just over £170,000. amount, whilst appearing modest by taking the helm at a time of UK standards, is calculated on a significant activity. We will be rebuilding 13 large shopping basket of essential goods, schools at a cost of over £1.4 As we enter 2017, the following ensuring our pensioners are able to million. This is a marked increase on points outline just some of our afford all of the essentials. our previous Schools Programme. ambitious strategy to ensure that 48% of our pensioners are over 80 Gurkha veterans, their widows and We will also be spending over and the majority are often heavily their wider communities are able £1.3 million on our Home Al Howard reliant on the funds we provide. to live their lives with dignity. Rebuilding Programme. Director In addition to the Welfare Pension, we provide a number of other grants to Gurkha veterans and their families. These have also just been increased Over 500 new quake-resistant homes now complete thanks to your generosity. That’s 504 veterans or widows who now have somewhere safe to live after last year’s devastating earthquakes reduced their old homes to rubble. Our medical care in action Our homes are unique in that they are built to This is World War Two veteran Rifleman Birbahadur Gurung, ensure they're strengthened against future ex 1/3 Gurkha Rifles. earthquakes. They cost us approximately £7,100 Bir is 98 years old and relies heavily on his daughter-in-law to care for to construct. him. He is completely blind and suffers from arthritis, asthma and 504 puts us over one third of the way to hypertension. Our mobile medical staff visit him regularly to ensure he rebuilding all of the 1,200 Gurkha homes that has the medication and support he needs. were destroyed, which we aim to achieve by Last year we provided him with a commode and a mattress, which have June 2017. In fact, construction work has already made a great difference to his quality of life. On top of the Welfare begun on a further 287 homes. Pension Bir receives from us, we are able to provide his daughter-in-law Of course, we still have a long way to go and with a Carer's Allowance, around 2,500 NPR (£18) per month, which helps we’re committed to rehousing all veterans and compensate for her lack of income as a result of caring full-time for Bir. widows as soon as possible. We're pleased that On the day this photo was taken in August, our mobile medical staff visited 22 other Gurkha veterans and widows despite the many challenges – including across Bheri on their motorbikes. Our Medical Programme is hugely valued by Gurkha veterans and their families monsoon season – we’re making strong headway. who otherwise would have no access to medical care. You can read more about our home rebuilds on our website at www.gwt.org.uk/rebuilding-homes or follow us on Facebook @GurkhaWelfareTrust to see a collection of photos of veterans and widows on their moving-in days. 2 3 Samachara No. 45 Winter 2016 The Gurkhas and the Falkland Islands The impact of our Rural Water No bridge too far - As with so much of the In early 2016, a group of our doctors on bikes 7GR troops celebrate victory Gurkhas' history, Gurkha dedicated supporters in the and Sanitation Programme in the Falklands, 1982 involvement in the Falklands Falklands decided that they We'd like to thank those of you Conflict has become the would like to step up and who responded so generously to stuff of legend. help the people of Nepal. the story of our new motorbikes During the Conflict in 1982, After raising a terrific in the last edition of Samachara. Argentine propaganda had amount of money, they came One supporter, Mr J.V.H Robins, spread amongst their troops to us to see how we could contacted us immediately to offer that the opposing British spend their funds where it £2,600 - enough to purchase one forces would "butcher" their was needed most. of the bikes for us! prisoners of war. Not only This is Rastriyaq Secondary that, "the Gurkhas would “Having had the privilege of School in Diktel, Nepal. then eat them!" serving in 2/10 Gurkha Rifles The propaganda was for my National Service, I have apparently spread by Lance Corporal Karna Kubir Rai long supported the excellent Argentinians to fire up their work of The Gurkha Welfare Karna Kubir Rai joined the Brigade of Gurkhas in 1975 troops and give them even Trust. In its latest newsletter, more of a reason to hate and went on to become a Lance Corporal with the I read how motorbikes are 7th Gurkha Rifles. the British. Unfortunately, it was said to backfire cutting down the time it takes In 1982, he deployed to the Falkland Islands with his catastrophically, promoting for the Trust’s doctors to visit battalion and was among the first troops to enter wide-spread fear in the their patients. Port Stanley when Argentinian forces surrendered on Falklands. It is even said that Located in the recruitment 14 June 1982. Karna Kubir is photographed above the leading Junta of the time areas for 7GR (the regiment Trips that would have taken (left, in the Falklands) waving with comrades from 7GR.
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