Done in appreciation of the services for the community in these hard times
Sikh Nation (Sikh Kom) which has been organizing blood drives since 1999, has roots in the 1984 genocide in India. Every November, the Sikh Nation honours the victims of the genocide remembering the thousands of Sikhs who were massacred in New Delhi and other parts of India.
Singh also delivered small personal pizza pies to the homeless population at Jamaica Center.
Volunteers from Sikh temples in Barking and Seven Kings have set up an initiative to distribute more than 550 meals a day to local food banks.
“I'm on a fixed income so our budget is running low all the time,” said Evelyn Hernandez, who was there to get food. "They're helping the community.”
"We want to give back but also give them an understanding of who we are because there are a lot of misconceptions about our religion, a lot of misconceptions of who we are and we want to educate them as well as feed them," says Tanroop Singh.
The volunteers have been organised into five teams - a telephone helpline operating from 9am to 9pm, cooking and preparing, packing, delivering and cleaning.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Gurudwara has produced 450 boxes so far
Many feeding operations that homeless San Diegans have long relied on have halted. “I’ve never seen the level of desperation we’re seeing on the streets right now,” one advocate told VOSD.
"We follow the Sikh way of life. We are just doing what other Australians are doing today, and that is to serve and pray for the people who have been hit hard by these terrible bushfires."