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Vigilance is deeply proud and indebted to its working association with the wonderful and industrious Gurkha people of Nepal, a country recently devastated by the terrible magnitude 7.8 earthquake of 25^th April.

The company already has a developed CSR and social enterprise agenda, and a longstanding charitable partnership with the Gurkha Welfare Trust. Donations to this page will be channelled direct to GWT and this partnership, the details of which are available attached to this page.

In the coming 24 months our collaboration is seeking to raise over £50,000 for a desperately needed school reconstruction project in the Gurkha heartlands. To date Vigilance and its staff have raised £10,000 in charitable donations, half of which have been diverted into Nepal earthquake disaster relief appeals.

Before the earthquake, 2015 was a landmark year of ‘G200’ celebrations to mark the bicentennial of the treaty with Nepal that founded the British Army’s legendary Brigade of Gurkhas. That agreement remains Britain’s most enduring Asian political alliance that ushered in 200 years of flourishing respect and cooperation.

But Nepal remains Asia’s poorest nation with its lowest GDP at approximately $20 billion. Any causes for celebration are currently overwhelmed by earthquake trauma but almost more crushingly the estimated costs for post disaster reconstruction of between $5 and $10 billion.

With these stark facts in mind, Vigilance is balancing its response between immediate needs and long term sustainable reconstruction that will address development needs in one of Nepal’s most isolated and deprived communities unsupported by national Nepali funding, nevermind international aid money.

Vigilance’s own charitable rebuilding project is targeted at the construction of a new earthquake resistant school in Chiuribote village to service the educational, medical and community needs of an isolated subsistence farming community in Nepal’s Western Kali Gandaki Zone. The Sidartha School project is deeply personal as Chiuribote is the home village of our operations director Laxman Pun, in the region from which many Vigilance staff hail.

Vigilance staff will be participating in a sequence of events this year and next in support of the GWT partnership fundraising target. Details of event participation, including 2015’s G200 100km Trailwalker team trail running challenge supporting the GWT will be posted on the Vigilance website, and via periodic bulletins.

All at Vigilance wholeheartedly thank you for your continued support. Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your donation will be sent directly to the GWT.