United Sikhs to build bomb shelters in Ukraine

United Sikhs to build bomb shelters in Ukraine

United Sikhs chief in Ukraine to assess relief efforts

Founder Director of United Sikhs is touring the war zone in Ukraine to assess the needs of the local residents who have been rendered homeless and step up its relief efforts. He is meeting with local leaders and humanitarian organizations to optimize humanitarian assistance for the people of Ukraine.

United Sikhs which had been one of the first responders to organize relief with volunteers from Germany, the US, Denmark and the UK flying in, risking their lives to set up medical relief camp, heated shelter, a community kitchen for daily supply of food for the refugees and the victims in multiple cities including Kyiv.

Hardayal Singh accompanied by another senior Director from Seattle, Balwant Singh, and Newark-based lawyer and activist Victor Herlinsky, went around various towns around Kharkiv and interacted with the families who lost their homes in the bombing.

The immediate need is for safe bombing shelters to save children, women, the old and the sick which United Sikhs shall be setting up soon for more than 300 children, women and men, in the grey zone in the heart of Ukraine, Hardayal Singh informed.

In the wake of this humanitarian crisis and the suffering that every family is going through the resilient Ukrainians are keeping a brave face, Hardayal Singh said, which calls for concerted efforts of the people around the globe to join in this campaign to save the children, women, and men shattered by war.

The UN-affiliated United Sikhs had been looking after refugees with medical aid, life-saving relief supplies, sanitation and dental kits, clothing, and food every day.

Earlier this month at a fund-raiser hosted by Friends of Ukraine, at Newark, NJ, Senator Cory Booker, joined in the spirit of solidarity with United Sikhs and said, that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and injustice is happening, people are dying right now and appreciated the United Sikhs' initiatives from not letting the evil triumph through their good work.

 

 

About United Sikhs:

UNITED SIKHS is an international humanitarian service organisation, affiliated to UN, engaged in relief and rehabilitation in the times of disaster, combating poverty and hunger, empowering the disadvantaged through literacy, and providing legal aide to the miniority communities around the world.  Founded in 1999 in New York, where it is headquartered, United Sikhs has chapters in North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe.

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CAPTIONS:
1. United Sikhs founder Hardayal Singh (centre) with another director Balbir Singh in Ukraine

2. United Sikhs talking to locals whose homes have been raged to ground by indiscriminate bombing.

3.  Devastation in Kharkiv