British Sikhs to build houses for Nepal earthquake victims

British Sikhs to build houses for Nepal earthquake victims

By NewsGram Staff Writer

After helping the flood victims in Bosnia, a team of British Sikhs is in Nepal to help the bereft people in building their homes and providing them with food and medicine.

The members are from the Punjab-based voluntary organization Khalsa Aid.

"We have raised 250 shelters till date and the target is to raise an equal number of structures," said Kanwar Singh of Khalsa Aid.

The team of Khalsa Aid reached Nepal within 12 hours of the first quake in the country on April 25.

"In the next 48 hours we all arrived here from Britain," Kanwar Singh added.

A builder by profession and volunteer of the charity, Jim Winkworth is in charge of the reconstruction work in Nepal.

"We are raising structures with new material or stuff retrieved from the debris," Winkworth told IANS.

"The charity daily holds community kitchens in and around Kathmandu, providing food to over 8,000 people," said Amanpreet Singh, project co-ordinator.

Singh recently came in Nepal from Bosnia, and he said that if needed they might extend the project in this land-locked country.

Khalsa Aid is an international non-profit aid and relief organization founded on the Sikh principles of selfless service and universal love. It was established in the year 1999 and helped in providing relief assistance to the victims of disasters, wars and other tragic events around the world.

The organization has provided 10 tonnes of relief material, comprising food, water purification tablets, medicines and tents for the quake victims.

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