The Sikh community in Richmond has, once again, reached its broad hand across religious boundaries to help Syrian refugees.
The India Cultural Centre’s Gurdwara Nanak Niwas, on No. 5 Road’s “Highway to Heaven,” has collected and donated a number of household items for Richmond’s St. Gregory’s Armenian Church, which is sponsoring around 30 families fleeing war-torn Syria in the Middle East.
And last Friday, the donations were handed over to the Christian congregation.
“Their rather small congregation must be commended for this act of kindness,” the Indian Cultural Centre’s Balwant Sanghera said of the Armenian church’s sponsorship.
“(We) appealed to (our) congregation to donate any items they could. The response has been overwhelming.”
Sanghera said they expect to continue to gather donations for future hand-overs and he’s asking for donations of furniture, kitchen wares, canned foods and utensils.
Sanghera is asking members of the community to leave their names and contact information with the Gurdwara at 604-274-7479, if they have any of the aforementioned items for donation.
