During the month between April 25 and May 25, the Sikh Community of Oliver organized a Ladies Fundraising Tea, shared information at the temple about the devastation of homes...
Another test of our universal faith lessons: love thy neighbor, service to humanity, recognition of our intertwined destiny as a human family is before us.
On 24th May, UNITED SIKHS Nepal Relief Team traveled in army trucks to reach their destination. The team set up a medical and dental camp at Kerabari village in Dakshankali and had to hike for an hour to reach here.
With contributions gathered through various Sikh temples in Surrey, the local charity Sikhi Awareness Foundation plans to build a total of 70 to 80 semi-permanent houses in various villages of Nepal.
These are all after-shocks of the big tremor that hit Kathmandu on April 25th. These are continuing aftershocks since the earth is still settling down and the energy from the fault is still being released, one after the other..
With immediate effect Shri Guru Nanak Dev Sewa Society International have started 24 hrs Langar sewa (Free Food & water) and working on providing first aid. Our staff members are reaching out to the people who can’t come to our Relif Camps.
Luckily for them and the residents, medical supplies have been procured locally by generous donors as Mr. Ravi Singh, a zealous Sikh from Kathmandu, instrumental in starting the DSGMC food camp there.
DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK told TOI that they would send twenty five thousand food packets every day to Nepal while SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said they would be sending twenty thousand food packets on Sunday.
Members of the congregation at the Gurdwara Sahib Leamington and Warwick have rallied round to raise thousands of pounds for the victims of the Nepal earthquake which happened on Saturday.
The dilapidated building of the 400-year-old gurdwara -- Guru Nanak Math -- in Kathmandu will be preserved and "Prakash" ceremony will be held therein. In a meeting... on Saturday, Nepalese PM Baburam Bhattari assured that the Sikh maryada would be implemented in the historical shrine.
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have forced more 200,000 people from their homes in northeast India and neighbouring Nepal, and killed almost 80 people, government officials said yesterday.
It takes courage, character and idealism to forsake urban comfort and move to such a harsh, yet beautiful place. But coming as an outsider to a remote village, Malika has taken up women's and environmental issues and is working towards bringing a change in the lives of the womenfolk.
