Posted by Guru Simran Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
Food for Kids is a volunteer program that serves hungry children in and around the Española, New Mexico area. It was founded in 2009. The program regularly provides bags of food to local children between ages 6-12 who do not always get enough food to eat.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, 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 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 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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Posted by Siri Deva Singh& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People
Introducing a new non-profit started by Siri Deva Singh of Austin, TX, USA
A few weeks ago I found myself out in the FreshGiving garden for the first harvest of our summer crop fifteen pounds of cucumbers clipped from lush, sprawling vines. These cukes were later dropped off to Hope Food Pantry in Austin, TX, where they were…
Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under Around the World, Ministry, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
Service is Happiness
In life we all search for happiness. We might not even comprehend what a state of happiness really is. We taste it at times for short moments and this makes us keep looking for it and live our lives pursuing that thing we call happiness. In this search we often find that…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
by Sat Kaur Khalsa of Caring Coalition
I was in Espanola in November of 2013 to attend a dear friend’s graduation. She was excited about a coat drive she was conducting for kids at the local schools, her way of celebrating her birthday. In addition, she was very involved in the backpack food program that the…
Posted by OngKar Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People
In mid-January, a few of us were in California for some meetings and on the Monday evening after our meetings were completed, we joined the Share a Meal team to serve food to the homeless on Skid Row in LA.
Many of us do not have a reference point to how awful it is to actually “live on the…
Posted by Guru Simran Kaur Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
Food 4 Kids NM is a small organization in rural New Mexico, USA which supports low income school children by providing them with bags of food to take home over the weekend. These children qualify to be part of the school district's food program which provides 2 daily meals to children on school days. Often…
Posted by Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur& filed under Community, Events, Our Authors, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People
The World Parliament of Religions was a wonderful environment where people of all faiths and those who were interested in building unity of faith in the world gathered together to address the Global issues of our day. Economic inequality, sustainability, global warming and care of the indigenous cultures, peace and women’s equality and rights were a few…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People
Service is woven deep into the fabric of who Sikhs are. It is one of the 3 core values handed down by Guru Nanak: Naam Japo (praise God’s name), Kirat Karo (earn an honest living) and Vand Chhako (share what you have with others). In this way, a Sikh lives as an inspiration and support…
Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under Ministry, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People
This article is courtesy of the Sikh Dharma Ministry
Gratitude and joy were constant and faithful companions during my recent visit to the2015 Parliament of World Religions that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, from October 15 – 19. The gratitude and joy that filled me was for the remembered blessing of being…
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