Dr. Rajwant Singh, SHDF's Outreach Director, said, ".... This is the largest single grant money given by the diaspora community to needy but bright students who have the keen desire to rise and lift their families out of poverty."
In my opinion, the whole point of volunteering is to get to know your community better, being an active as well as a helpful person and the experiences that you take back from volunteering.
Following a letter writing campaign by United Sikhs to the school and State authorities, the school principal called a meeting with parents of the affected students and the Sikh community representatives, on 25th May, when he announced that the students may return to school wearing their turbans.
As high schoolers prepare for final exams, teens nationwide may be tempted to use a “study drug” – a prescription stimulant or amphetamine – to gain an academic edge. But a new University of Michigan poll shows only one in 100 parents of teens 13-17 years old believes that their teen has used a study drug.
According to a release by the Sikh Coalition the US National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NBEO) provided Ampreet Singh, a Sikh optometry student, a religious accommodation to use a non-standardized optometry instrument — allowing him to wear his turban
“I think multicultural awareness is important because you can accept people easier if you know where they’re coming from and that just makes for a more successful community, a successful work life and a more successful educational life,” Kanwar said.
Sikh students held a conference on The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist. The objective of this conference was to “present the Sikh perspective of these two themes, to discuss the Sikh tradition and perhaps even outline what a Sikh’s role is as an activist, and what a woman’s role is as a Sikh…
The Sikh community in Australia has demanded that religious kirpan be allowed in schools after the government made an amendment in the Constitution preventing the ceremonial knife being worn in schools.
In southern California, the Board of the Jurupa Unified School District recently enacted a provision allowing Sikh students to carry a kirpan — a sword or blade that is an article of the Sikh faith — on its school campuses.
The Sachkhand Express Corporation was able to help organize and participate in the Annual Camden Day of Service at Farnham Park in Camden, NJ. Camden has been a severely impoverished community that has been plagued with violence over ....
A US-based Sikh body has raised over $250,000 to fund scholarships for bright but poor students striving to acquire higher professional education in Punjab and neighbouring states.
ACT, Inc., has selected Parminder Jassal, Ph.D., to head the ACT Foundation as the founding executive director. Dr. Jassal will provide leadership and strategic vision to launch the Foundation with the objective of improving underserved students’ success in both education and the workplace.
Manat Kaur is in many ways a typical 14-year-old, indistinguishable from others her age in her usual outfit of sneakers, jeans and T-shirt. But when asked, the soon-to-be high school freshman makes it a point never to hide her Sikh identity.
The wind of change must touch all in France. Minorities must now receive a chance to build a proper self-image and show true allegiance to their national ethic, rather than face the humiliating and inflammatory insistence on choosing ‘flag before faith.’
“We’re proud to sponsor a program that stimulates creativity and entrepreneurial spirit in high school students,” said Infinite Computer Solutions founder and non-executive chairman, Sanjay Govil.
This lack of familiarity with Sikhism can cause problems for young Sikhs. Most of them do not display all of the symbols all of the time, but they often have to explain the ones they do wear every day, usually the kesh and kara.
The U.S. Consulate General Karachi hosted an inter-faith conference that brought a Muslim Mufti, a Catholic Bishop, and the Sikh Representative founder of the Pakistan Sikh Council, Sardar Ramesh Singh, Michael Javid former MPA Sindh with over 100 male and female students of different faiths.
An over one-and-half-month old controversy over wearing of full-sized turban by Sikh students ended Saturday with a prominent boys’ school here allowing them to wear the headgear, an official said.
In what is expected to become a yearly tradition, the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) has named five students as ambassadors for the best and brightest the University of Calgary has to offer.
After two years of planning, waiting, filming, waiting, editing and waiting we are so grateful to announce the completion of this short documentary that gives viewers a taste of what it is like to be a student at Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar.
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbanhak Committee President Avtar Singh Makkar here said that Uttar Pradesh Education Board has slapped ban on baptized Sikh (Amritdhari)students to wear kirpan in schools.
There is a huge Sikh community in Leicester and parents would like the option of sending their child to a school which has a background in the faith so after considering it for some time we have decided to go ahead with our application [for a free school.]
Only 7.2 per cent of the rural students in Punjab reach the college level and even lesser 0.4 per cent of them opt for post-graduation, as per a study conducted by the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
