Thursday 13 August 2009

Don't Forget The Gurkhas

In some news from afar, Sundar Khanal reports on former Mayor of Reading, Cllr Peter Beard, who, as founder of The Forgotten Gurkha Charity, has travelled to Kathmandu as part of the charity's campaign 'to orient and assist' the settlement transition of Gurkhas.


Watch him speak from 1:48 - 2:35

You can find out more about the charity by visiting it's website here: The Forgotten British Gurkha

-

For more on the history of the Gurkha campaign to win the right of settlement click here.
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

3 comments:




"Reading List... is fantastic, it could help revolutinise politics in Reading"
Matt Blackall

"Prolific"
Matt Brady

"Irrelevant"
Adrian Windisch

"Bizarre"
Reading Geek Night

"A bloggers digest of the Berkshire blogosphere"
DMOZ

"An easily accessible collection of Berkshire's excellent blogs"
The Cookham Blogger

"An excellent digest of the thoughts of local bloggers"
Reading Guide

...