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Team Rubicon UK story

UK Story,

THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER A 7.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HIT NEPAL IN APRIL 2015, A TEAM FROM TEAM RUBICON USA WAS EN ROUTE TO KATHMANDU.
Not long after their arrival, a team of British Armed Forces veterans, including Gurkhas, began preparations to join them for Operation: Tenzing. This became Team Rubicon United Kingdom (TR UK) working alongside TR USA to support those impacted by the quake.

GENERAL SIR NICK PARKER, FORMER COMMANDER OF BRITISH LAND FORCES AND BOARD MEMBER OF TEAM RUBICON GLOBAL, PUT OUT A CALL TO ACTION ASKING UK VETERANS TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME AND SKILLS TO PROVIDE AID IN NEPAL.
He quickly pulled together an impressive roster of men and women focused on providing medical aid, search and rescue support, and translation assistance in several remote regions of Nepal.

In the following months Team Rubicon UK was officially established as a charity in the UK and by the end of the year had responded to further calls for assistance from both the UK and abroad.

Team Rubicon has also helped me overcome some personal fears by deploying me out to Louisiana, Baton Rouge, USA. This give the chance to help others in despair from resent flooding. 

The hardest part for me was working around the home owners as you were piling up their life on the side of the road, forever gone. Our tasks were simple get the house to a state where it can be repaired, this mostly meant stripping the insides down to the bare bones. Meeting home owners each day became a heartfelt experience that I’ll never forget, yet after losing everything in floods of up the 10 ft high people still demonstrated immense strength of character, I guess we all hold this inside.