In Sikh faith it's very important that you earn an honest living,
meditate and also give back to others, 'Sarbat da bhala' which means welfare of
all. It's about
giving back to the community and helping out your fellow man.
He's helping the community. He's helping people in need, just generally helping.
It's really nice.
Looking at him, the way he serves the community, it inspires you to, like,
you want to do the same thing. That's how Amar has been inspiring for us and all
other volunteers as well.
Turbans for Australia is an aid relief charity.
We help out during disasters. When we first started in 2015,
Turbans was
a small way to give back and get some fellow Sikhs to volunteer and get
involved. But now it's gone beyond faith, diversity, religion,
ethnicity. We've got every member of the society coming here to help,
be it on the forefront or in the background. Here we are now in a warehouse
where we can actually store thousands and thousands dollars' worth of stock in
food and material, to get out to people in need.
So we get donations when the issue is hot and, and the,
the issue is very real to people,
and that's why we come in. It means our warehouse looking like this,
jam packed with stuff that got here three months ago,
but people on the receiving end can't take it because they're not ready. So now
they're finally out. It's gonna be a huge trip,
probably three to four trucks that are going to be heading Saturday morning. We've
got barbecues, we've got furniture,
we've got toys that are going out to the Northern Rivers.
They're waiting for us.
Some of these families that you see behind us,
they still don't have houses to live in. They're either displaced from their
homes or they're living in homes which are still
ravaged by the floodwaters.
We've been helping people nonstop really since the floods,
trying to repair their homes and their lives and get back to some notion of
normality.
Just the fact that they arrived and said, we are here with you. You know,
it's an act of absolute solidarity. They came with food,
they came with their charity and with compassion,
and that's what our community needed.
Seeing the trucks roll in,
it was just absolutely incredible that there's organisations that can do that,
and so important.
These toys for these kids,
it's going to bring so much joy where they've got nothing. This is just going to
change their lives and just give them that little bit of hope that people are
still out there helping and people do care.
When you see parents and kids smiling, that's probably like, you know,
makes your day. That sort of, you know, keeps us driving.
It's all about connecting to people and telling them that they're not alone in
this. We're all thinking about them,
we're all supporting them in the recovery and that's all that matters.