Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Sikhs Feed People The SDI Staff attended local events to support the Global Climate Strike message.
Kirtan Singh participated in Los Angeles, by serving langar. The Khalsa Care Foundation, a Gurdwara in No. Los Angeles County prepared a vegan langar of rice and rajma dahl for 1,500. About ten persons were involved in making the langar. We…
Posted by Beads of Truth& filed under 03-Guru Amar Das, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
The 3rd Sikh guru, Guru Amar Das ji, proclaimed that no one would be allowed into his presence until that person had eaten in the Guru’s Kitchen, or Guru ka Langar. Of course, it was a wonderful service to make sure that everyone had this basic need for food taken care of before…
Posted by Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Around the World, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People Last fall, Sikh Dharma hosted a fund-raiser for a regional hospital in Venezuela. The lack of food and medicine in that country is overwhelming and raising money is just one step - finding a way to spend that money on the people who need it is not as easy as it may seem. …
Posted by Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People January 19 marked the fourth anniversary of Raj Khalsa Gurdwara’s monthly langar for the homeless program, an important milestone for the Raj Khalsa Gurdwara sangat in Virginia, USA.…
Posted by Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Service/Seva Every story at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center is a tale of tragedy, and it is no less for the Indian Sikh and South Asian refugees waiting for adjudication of their cases. The path to detention usually starts in India with a smuggler. The young men pay tens of thousands…
Posted by Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Around the World, Service/Seva, Your Stories In late January, a devastating mud slide swallowed up the mining town of Brumadinho in Brazil. The mud, sweeping down from a large and unstable mountain of tailings from the Vale mine, destroyed everything in its path. With no warning and no time escape, as many as 500 human lives were buried under…
Posted by Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Around the World, Community, Service/Seva On January 11, Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa represented Sikh Dharma of Virginia at the Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions 2019 Kickoff Meeting. The Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions (FACS) unites people of faith to develop local solutions to the climate crisis, and works to empower religious communities in Virginia to become champions of change. They work primarily…
Posted by Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Around the World, Service/Seva Simran Singh Khalsa, representing the Dharmic Office of Public Affairs at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Roundtable, signed a letter to the President requesting protection for all religions in Syria.
The Law and Liberty Trust and Jubilee Campaign are gathering signatures on an NGO letter to President Donald Trump asking him to ensure that…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, Community, Events, Service/Seva, Your Stories
This article is by Shiv Antar Kaur Khalsa, who shares her experience of the 2018 Lord of Miracles Tour in South and Central America
When I decided to go on this tour, I had no idea what to expect. Part of me was excited, while the other part nervous. Most of…
Posted by Miri Piri Academy& filed under Around the World, Service/Seva The Miri Piri Academy annual forty days of ishnaan seva at the Golden Temple continues (Follow on instagram @mpaspirit).
One of the aspects that’s so cherished at the Golden Temple is the langar, the free community kitchen. Each day it serves approximately 50,000 people a simple meal of dhal, rice, sabzi, kheer and…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People This Humanitarian Crisis is Worse than You Think!
What is Happening
The Venezuelan economic crisis has turned into a full-blown humanitarian disaster. The country’s currency, the bolivar, has devalued to point of being worthless and inflation has now pushed food prices to the point where two-thirds of all Venezuelans cannot afford to…
Posted by jhsd (Course)& filed under Service/Seva, Your Stories Due to Hurricane Harvey’s devastation, several small towns and larger ones like Rockport were in great need of help. I was feeling a strong urge to help in some way, but not sure if I would actually do something or even how I would help. The thought kept coming to me, “How can I be a…
Posted by Sat Bir Singh Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Community, Legacy Organizations, Service/Seva At Yogi Tea, we believe that the purpose of business is to serve. We do this in many ways from how we treat our employees, business partners, vendors, and consumers to the deep partnerships and connection we have with our grower communities.
First a little background. There are five original spices that started…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People Sikh Dharma Disaster Relief Fund on Crowdrise
See how your donations are making an impact.
Here is some of the work being done for this relief effort.
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