Dubai Gurudwara Repatriates More Stranded Indians

The Sikh community in the UAE is setting an example for others to emulate. Despite the hurdles created by Covid-19, Guru Nanak Darbar Gurudwara Dubai, under the Chairmanship of Sardar Surender Singh Kandhari, has been working relentlessly to help the stranded Indians in the UAE. He has been greatly helped by Sukhdev Singh and his great team of volunteers of Khalsa Motorcycle Club UAE.

“We have also successfully chartered 9 flights to Chandigarh and Amritsar till date since June 2020, helping around 1750 stranded people in the UAE to reunite them back with their families,” said Surender Singh Kandhari.

“These are the people who are in real distressed situation having no jobs, no access to food, accommodation and can’t afford to pay for the ticket cost to go back home. There are still more people who have come forward and registered themselves at the Gurudwara for the repatriation flights and we shall continue to help them.”

Sardar Surender Singh Kandhari, chairman and volunteers at the airport to help the repatriation process.

“We have given around 150 free tickets and 50 discounted tickets, also helped many blue collared workers by paying off their immigration fines to exit the country. Around 25 Indian brethren who were imprisoned here in the UAE on criminal charges for the last 8 – 9 years have been released and were sent back to India today on one of the chartered flights. I am very content that they will now meet their family members after so many years of being apart,” Kandhari added.

“Serving humanity is the DNA of Sikh ethos, we are blessed that we have got an opportunity to help the needy and during these difficult times we have to put our one foot forward to support humanity.

“I would like to thank the Dubai Government for helping us with all the permissions, especially Ms. Safaa Khalaf, Director, Terminal 2 Dubai Airports, who has helped us enabling smooth and efficient operations with the chartered flights. The Punjab Government has been very cooperative and has given us timely approvals and all the assistance required for operating these flights,” he added.

The Gurudwara has been distributing around 1000 free meals and around 300-400 food bags of raw food (rice, dal, milk, sugar, wheat) since March to date, with the help of Indian Consulate and Volunteers. The Community Development Authority of Dubai and other local authorities have been endlessly supporting us with this initiative.

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