Donate today! Khalsa Aid is raising money for families in Punjab who are now living below the poverty line in, who have no food or shelter!! Every Penny counts!!

Khalsa Aid is sending a team out in October including Pavitar Singh and  Gagandeep Singh whose primary task will be to ensure that every penny that is raised goes directly to providing financial and medical support to those most in need in Punjab!
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Focus Punjab

The shortage of water in some states like Punjab, despite having its own rivers, is drying up the fertile agricultural land leaving debt ridden farmers helpless and forced into suicide. There is an ever present threat of the children being lured into the dark world of drugs and amphetamines by individual dealers and various cults which these projects try to combat. The practice of female foeticide (child is killed/aborted before its even born only because the sex of the foetus is a female) continues to rise.

Despite this, many receive no help from any social, religious or judicial organisations. Khalsa Aid's volunteers are the first to reach out to them.

Many of these families are living in fear of the police and if anybody helps them then the police will most likely harass them. But we firmly believe that if we all took the step to reach these families then the fear will subside and the police will eventually notice that we are doing nothing more than assisting these families on a humanitarian basis.

Through Khalsa Aid's projects, underprivileged children from areas of severe deprivation are sponsored and encouraged to attend school. Khalsa Aid are financially supporting over 170 children from very underprivileged backgrounds and areas of severe deprivation at the cost of 57000 rupees each month; this will increase as the children get older and attend higher education. Khalsa Aid aim to provide stability within the family unit, which
includes medical care.

Furthermore, Khalsa Aid aims to engage whole families in drugs awareness programmes as there is widespread drugs and alcohol abuse in rural Punjab. Also significant support is provided to Shaheed families.

Examples of how donations have helped in the past:

Khalsa Aid is eternally grateful to donators/Sangat, as through the support of the Sangat Khalsa Aid were able to provide Rs. 300,000 to Major Dalbir Singh, Dharmi Fauji, whose family had been living in a house that was decrepit and dilapidated and did not provide even shelter from the elements.Now he and his family can finally live in a house with full shelter.

A Khalsa Aid team that travelled from the UK to India recently, were shocked after visiting one family and seeing with their own eyes the level of poverty a widow and son were living in. Monetary support was provided, including monthly welfare support and unlimited support for the child's education.

We urge you. Help us to Help them!

With your help we hope to show those from underprivileged backgrounds a  light at the end of the tunnel and encourage them that they can finally overcome the nightmare of a life they are living.

Just Giving provides the opportunity for the Public to donate money to Khalsa Aid for this project whilst ensuring full transparency as the all donations go to straight to Khalsa Aid and will be utilised in October 2011 when Gagandeep Singh and Pavitar Singh travel to India to apply the funds to ongoing projects in Panjab.

Every penny you donate today will go directly to those in need. 50% of the monies raised will be going to help improve living conditions of a family and 50% will be utilised for purchasing essentials for poverty-stricken, forgotten families in Punjab.

Gagandeep Singh and Pavitar Singh will be keeping a video diary blog of their voluntary visit to India. Through this they hope to be able to share with you their experiences and provide transparency as to how your money has been spent to help those in need.

A BIT ABOUT OURSELVES:

Pavitar Singh (22 years old) is from the Leeds/Bradford Area and is a Law Graduate of Leeds University. He has completed the LPC and is set to start his training contract in London in March 2012. He has always wanted to do Humanitarian Relief Work abroad. Following; a presentation by Khalsa Aid, speaking to those who have volunteered in Khalsa Aid's Project in India in the past, watching Khalsa Aid's youtube video blogs through which he has
been able to see the difference Khalsa Aid is making to hundred's of families in India, he has been inspired to volunteer his time and efforts to help those in need.

Also graduating from Leeds University in Medical Sciences (BSc), Gagandeep Singh (23 years old) has also shared a keen interest in doing Humanitarian Relief Work. Thus, Khalsa Aid has provided him the opportunity to gain valuable voluntary work experience abroad so that he can implement this to other projects in the future. Also, being a recent graduate, Gagandeep wishes to grasp this experience to aid his personal development and self  awareness.

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