Fund Raising Event!

Charity Match

On the 6^th of August 2011, Gurkha FC organized a fund raising event to raise cash for an injured fellow footballer from Melbourne. Ujwal Chettri was found lying unconscious by police and was warded in Alfred Hospital with serious brain injury. Although his life is out of danger, his senses are still not working properly. However, over the past week, he has slowly started to recognize his family and friends. Yeti FC, whom the player is affiliated to and who has been providing financial and emotional support, sent out an appeal for help to the general Nepalese public in Australia.  Being a former team-mate of Ujwal, Amar Tamag, a current player of GFC, approached the club who responded by organizing a mini-football fiesta on the stated date.

Using the social media network, Facebook, and through the old fashioned means of e-mail, word was spread around about the event being organized for a good cause.  In just a couple of days, the responses were promising, with attendees and volunteers answering the call for help.

The day itself started off brightly (as in it was a sunny day!) and in typical Nepalese fashion, behind schedule (will we ever change??!). Nevertheless, the event took off with players from GFC and Deshon Boys (mixture of Singaporean, Malaysians and Indian nationalities) divided into 4 separate teams. The teams were to play a 6-a-side tournament in a league format with the top 2 fighting it out for the ultimate prize; the right to brag about being champions and as well taking home whatever remained of the barbeque and drinks, which were incidentally being looked after by a number of volunteers.

The climax of the day ended with the two GFC teams reaching the finals of the mini-tournament with Ashok and Dipen’s team taking top honours (and evidently the main prize of the all you can eat BBQ and drinks for that night). The score shall not be revealed (one of the teams got a hiding…) as it beats the whole purpose of the tournament, which was to have fun whilst at the same time raising money for a good cause. In doing so, with the sales from the BBQ, drinks, player’s participation fees as well as doing a round of “chanda” collection, GFC had raised a total of $780 on the day. Considering that the event was organized at such short notice, this was a great achievement which all the players and volunteers who took part should be proud of. To all those who made this event a great success, GFC thanks you all and please, do give yourselves a round of applause. Job well done people!

GFC will pass on the contributions to Yeti FC in due time and in doing so, wish Ujwal all the best in his recoveries. GFC hopes to see you the next time we drop by in Melbourne! You better be ready then!!

Gurkhali Ayo!

P.S: Special thanks go out to the Deshon Boys for being good sports and participating in this event.

Next Match

Gurkha FC vs. Skywind

Date: 14th August (Sunday)
Time: 2pm
Venue: Yeronga

Please be at the field by 1.00 pm!

Come and enjoy night with Ramkrishna Fusion with our renoun Dheeraj (TABALA) also supported by Bhadra (6 strings) and betrayed band Unplugged.

Date: 03 July 2009
Time: 17:30 – 23:30
Address: 70 UKRAINIAN HALL, CORDELIA STREET, South Brisbane

Next week we are likely to not have a game according to the fixtures. We may be having a friendly cricket match against the Nepalese cricket team this Sunday morning at Runcorn. Confirmation will be sent out later during the week.