Browsing Tag: Community

Seva Search Raises $1.3 Million To Connect Consumers With Local Businesses

The world is filled with problems and people to fix them. But linking the afflicted with those that can solve their problem has never been easy. One local team of techies may have the answer.
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Miracle on Moeser Lane

The people of El Cerrito refused to let his legacy die. This beloved holiday tradition can go on for hundreds of years. Or it can go away tomorrow, and after a generation nobody will remember. It's up to you, El Cerritans.
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UNITED SIKHS Wins CHASE Community Giving Contest On FaceBook

UNITED SIKHS wins $250K Grant in the Chase Community Giving Contest on Facebook. UNITED SIKHS extends sincere gratitude and appreciation to our supporters who voted for us and our volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this campaign an overwhelming success.
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Four Eyes But One Heart

We look around us very…emotionally disconnected. We have experienced the same fears, and pains as those in our community yet we are never there to offer a supportive word, a supportive action, then we wonder why or how we are such a fragmented society. Sikhs of the past did this not only for their own, but for others, they would put their life on the line to save someone else
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Global Potential of Our Community

Almost three decades later, things have changed considerably. Setting the stage, the address began with the rich history of Punjab and Sikhs which goes back thousands of years with great wars, beautiful arts, great cultural developments, phenomenal agriculture, charming poetry, and new religious heritage for which Sikhs are known.
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Does racialised media harm multiculturalism?

Last week, Sikh men in Southall stood defending a mosque whilst Muslims prayed. We see a clear example of multiculturalism and community cohesion at work; two different communities working together as part of the same community to achieve a common goal.
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Sikhs work to move past temple violence

In the wake of a bloody fight at a South Richmond Hill temple last week, Sikhs are working to educate police and others on a community they say is peace loving and mortified by the clash between individuals wielding swords and cricket bats. “The whole community was walking around with their heads down, ashamed,” said Gurpal Singh.
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BC’s Sikh and Non-Sikh Communities Explore Spirit of Vaisakhi

SikhRI’s BC coordinator Kirpa Kaur said that she felt the way the events were carried off was monumental for the local community. “These events felt like they were a long time coming, and we are so happy to have created the programming to educate not only non-Sikhs, but Sikhs as well, on the significance of Vaisakhi,”..
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Vaisakhi in Abbotsford a delicious way to learn

The luncheon is a an annual inter-cultural event that invites the larger community to come learn more about the Sikh faith and participate in Vaisakhi celebrations, said Satwinder Bains, director at the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley.
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Award from PM of Malaysia for a Sikh - Joe Mahinder Singh

Bhai Sahib Joe Mahinder Singh Ji, Malaysia's premier Video-man and Community Policeman and SEWAK in the spirit of Bhai Kanhaiya Ji's tradition was awarded the Prime Ministers Award for COMMUNITY POLICING by the State of Selangor, Malaysia. This is a FIRST for a SIKH
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