Khalsa Aid Volunteers Clean Up Church In Flood-Hit Kerala To Help People Offer Prayers
Khalsa Aid serving people.
While the Sikh volunteers from Khalsa Aid continue to serve the flood-affected people in Kerala with Guru Ka Langar (Community Kitchen ), around fourteen of its volunteers came forward to clean up a Church in Alleppey.
The clean up took two days and only after that the locals were able to offer prayers at the Thalavady St John¡¯s Marathoma Church at Neerattupuram in Alleppey.
Indian Express
The church was filled up with slush from the floodwater making it impossible for the public to offer the prayers.
¡°The local Christian community was unable to offer their Sunday Prayers as the church was filled with water and people were unable to access it. They requested our volunteers to clean the church for the Sunday mass. Our team sprung into action and cleaned the church in two days so that the community could offer prayers without any hurdles. They were overwhelmed by the dedication of our volunteers,¡± said Amarpreet Singh, Asia Pacific managing director for Khalsa Aid to The Indian Express.
Gurpreet Singh, a volunteer from Patiala, said, ¡°It took us two days to clean the whole church. We completed the work on Saturday and it felt very satisfying when people were able to do their Sunday prayers in the church. A message of humanity and communal harmony was given by our volunteers in these testing times for Kerala.¡±
Indian Express
Currently, a team of 22 volunteers of Khalsa Aid is working in Kerala to help with the relief operations by serving food to the people.
