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Sikh-American body raises $250,000 for education in Punjab
Saturday October 13, 2012 12:46:20 PM,
IANS
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Washington: A
Sikh-American community organisation has raised over $250,000 to
fund scholarships for needy students striving to acquire higher
professional education in Punjab and neighbouring Indian states.
The funds were raised at an event in Vienna, Virginia, a
Washington suburb in support of Sikh Human Development Foundation
(SHDF)'s mission to provide need-based scholarships for higher
professional education in India.
Noted television talk show host and producer Gurmeet Sodhi served
as the emcee.
Welcoming the audience Foundation chairman Amar Jit Singh Sodhi
said in the last 12 years SHDF had awarded nearly 2,400
scholarships at a cost of nearly a million dollars. About 800 of
these scholars have graduated and are working as professionals in
some 31 disciplines.
"These scholarship recipients in turn are changing the lives of
their families by educating their siblings and helping their
parents live their golden years with a smile on their faces," he
said.
Applauding SHDF at the gala, chief guest and philanthropist
Harshivinderjit Singh Bains, an ophthalmologist from Austin, Texas
said, "We as contributors to SHDF can extend a strong helping hand
that not only pulls that individual out of poverty but potentially
a couple of generations before and certainly those that follow."
A highlight of the evening was a move by a dozen girls, all around
the age of ten, which contributed to the outpouring of
compassionate giving by the guests.
Seeing their parents and grandparents selling tickets for the Gala
event, these girls formed a group called Young Khalsa Girls (YKG)
and raised $17,500 - enough to give 35 scholarships.
Before the programme began, guests observed a moment of silence in
remembrance of the victims and those affected by the recent
shooting in a Wisconsin Gurdwara.
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