As the devastating Alberta fire that was detected on May 1st begins to slow in growth, UNITED SIKHS as well as other organizations, continue to bravely hasten their services for the thousands of residents who were affected. Families’ lives have…
Washington, DC: After the immense success of the past two Academies we are bringing the Academy back with more sessions and more opportunity for advocacy than ever before! We are now accepting applications for UNITED SIKHS Advocacy & Humanitarian Aid Academy…
Washington, DC: After the immense success of the past two Academies we are bringing the Academy back with more sessions and more opportunity for advocacy than ever before! We are now accepting applications for UNITED SIKHS Advocacy & Humanitarian Aid Academy…
88,000 Residents of Fort McMurray and neighboring communities were forced to evacuate. Alberta, Canada: Wildfires have destroyed at least 1,600 homes in Alberta, Canada, and forced the mandatory evacuation of 88,000 people — including the entire city of Fort McMurray. Thousands…
UNITED SIKHS Australian volunteer, who also served as a Director, says, “I’m not the one that’s a freak, I’m fully Sikh.” Sukhjit Kaur is first generation Australian Sikh, a spoken-word poet who is very passionate about Sikhi, free-speech and women’s…
Dr Sardar Suran Singh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister on Minority Affairs Peshawar,Pakistan: UNITED SIKHS volunteer and an eminent member of the Sikh community Dr Suran Singh has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan. According to various sources, he was assassinated in…
Hackensack, New Jersey: More than 500,000 people – a quarter of them children – were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released by U.S. Department of Housing…
TABANOVCE, MACEDONIA – Thousands of refugees at the Macedonia border remain in limbo for weeks now at a refugee camp, near the small town of Tabanovce, unable to pass through to Serbia for the borders have been shut, according to UNITED…
Picture courtesy: BBC Brussels, Belgium – Three terrorist blasts rocked the Belgian capital earlier today, two at the Brussels Zaventem international airport and one at Maelbeek metro station and striking fear in the heart of the European Union just days after…
European Refugee Camps: For Mustafa Bazara, the evening was nothing more than a routine weeknight in Aleppo: He and his family were watching television around eight p.m. with the sound of bombs blasting in the distance. But this time he saw…