Why is this important?
In light of the earthquakes that are happening in Nepal right now, Nepal as a nation will be forever thankful for the international aid that has been provided from countries worldwide; but as a nepali citizen living abroad the utmost worst feeling you can experience at a time like this, is feeling helpless. No other nepali person will be feeling this helpless more so than our brave Gurkha soldiers. At a time where their home country has been weakened already more so than it previously was, it a hard piece of knowledge to possess when you are 4,532 miles away.
As a daughter of a Gurkha soldier currently still serving in the British Army, I know first hand, the amount of misery and heartache my father (along with other Nepalese personnel serving in the armed forces) feels knowing, that the job which is supposed to represent their homeland abroad, cannot do anything to help his own motherland.
Therefore I am starting the petition, to send out Nepalese Gurkha troops to Nepal, to help the people they know, the people that need it most right now, their families, their nation and their heart.
I don’t know if this will work? I don’t know whether this will even reach the British Government (given the recent elections- as the HM Govenrment E-Petitions site is not online for now)? But it’s worth a shot, when I cannot feel more helpless than I already do.
Especially since this year it is G200 (200 years since the Gurkhas have been in the British Army), what more love and joy could this bring to our boys? Knowing that they could first hand help their country at a time Nepal needed it most.
You do not have to be a Nepali national to sign up to this petition, you just have to understand the I message I am trying to convey. Anyone can sign up!
SO please, speaking on behalf of all Nepalese nationals living abroad who are feeling helpless and heartbreak that they are having to see this misery bestowed upon their country, please sign this petition. So even if the rest of us can stay back and try and help any way that we can, we can send out our boys, the ones who know they can make a difference.
Thank you,
Kriti Rana.
