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your absolutely right but im just saying that maybe we should try to maybe get some organisations to educate the youth and i would support it 100% (not that i dont support these organisations anyway)

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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

hmm Long Live The Khalsa jiyo thats exactly whut i mean..

ok so i agree 100% with Simmal Tree Veerji.. absolutely correct. its only for political reasons - or for personal gain - that ppl would rather start their own thing than help and support great organisations/ppl alread in existence out there.. i mean, i didnt even know about this book Veerji mentioned.. and the vid made by the doctor ji? never seen it.. we're so out of it as youths.. well, not all of us, but murakhs like me yeah.

i get the point about large scale projects.. but you've got to start somewhere... a Gatka class at a Guruduara Sahib isn't large-scale - but it helps.. we started one here recently, and its sooo good.. its like the thing most of us look forward to the whole week.. so many kids who never came to the Guruduara Sahib now come for the class, and started getting more involved in Seva, etc..

thank you very much Simmal Tree Veerji for your post - now im going to go check out this book and the vid. respect.gif

bhull chuk maaf

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

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thats what i mean because it will help but its just organising it for example im from leicester and there has been no sikhi camp in leicester for ovr ten years and no gatka classes hardly any sangat

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vaaheguroojeekaakhaalsaa

vaaheguroojeekeefatheh!!!!

khalsa jee,

there are so many wonderful resources out there but the problem is that we don't have "sikh public relations officers." i mean, in the USA, mayeb SALDEF (formerly SMART) was doing something but their mission is a little bit different now and there isn't really an international Sikhi promotions organization that can bring all of the wonderful things from around the world to the Sikhs that need it.

I'm telling you there are soooo many .. like *THOUSANDS* of Sikhs out there who have no idea that SikhiToTheMax even exists... and they would love it ...

Just like that there are many things that we don't know about but that's what these forums are for. We should go out there and find the real resources and share them with the youth so that they can be more accessible and more frequently used.

Examples are Isher Micro Media, and SikhiTotheMax, and SikhNames.com, and the Dastaar Videos on EktaOne.com, and those type of things.

"TeraRoop11" jee if you want to PM me with your mailing address I can send you a copy of the book. The video is on www.khalsa.tv

Simarjit Kaur bhainji will have a website for her writings soon.

I totally agree with "Long live the khalsa" jee. Starting things on a grassroots level is great.

Like in BC we have so many little programs, in houses, at the gurdwara, just a group of people, and it really helps them in their Sikhi. It might not be a big event, there might not be a lot of publicity, but it helps people in their Sikhi and it is chardee kalaa. These type of events are priceless. Having Sikhi events is not all about PR.

I think our community has been doing the wrong type of PR in the past 20 years. We promote Gurdwara Committees and big keertanis coming here for 10 days, and we make a big fuss over those things -- but we don't help the human rights organizations, or the people that are doing seva for 1984 Shaheed's families, or the people that are spending days and nights writing books for the Sikh panth. Those people don't bring money into the Gurdwaras golaks so they don't get publicity. But we need to publicize those efforts and stop putting so much effort into promoting the big-name keertanis (no disrespect to those that are chardee kalaa, but many of them are fooling us).

please forgive my mistakes

vaaheguroojeekaakhaalsaavaaheguroojeekeefathehhhh!!!!!!!!!!

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