Contact: 01722 323 955 or info@gwt.org.uk Welfare Advice: 01722 343 111 or gurkhawelfare@gwt.org.uk
About the Charity
We enable Gurkha veterans, their families and their wider communities to live their lives with dignity in Nepal.
About the Gurkhas
Gurkhas are traditionally recruited from the hill people of Nepal, with roots right back to an 8th century Hindu warrior.
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Celebrating Dashain Festival with a special treat
In October we join our Gurkha veterans and their families to celebrate the Festival of Dashain. It will be a…
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May you not trip when you walk – a widow’s story
Widow Deukumari Chhetri lives in Tanchowk village in the remote Annapurna region of Nepal. At the age of 95 she…
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An extraordinary tribute to an extraordinary man
‘Martin Gillott was a historian, a philosopher, a poet, an artist, a joker, an entertainer, a loyal friend and firstrate…
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