From Baptist churches to Buddhist and temples, religious groups volunteer for fire victims
Asian Americans, the most religiously diverse group in the U.S. and the third largest racial group in L.A., are organizing their faith groups to help.
Moninder Singh has spent the past week serving food and beverages at a Gurdwara — a Sikh temple — in Covina, California, to hungry victims displaced by Los Angeles County’s devastating wildfires.
“When we serve chai, there is a glow on people’s faces like we are giving them gold. The pleasure in their eyes is soothing to me,” Singh said. “We are planning to make samosas tomorrow.”
Asians Americans are the third-largest racial group in L.A. and the most religiously diverse group in the U.S. This diversity, however, is working in unison to lend a hand to the thousands of victims of the Southern California wildfires, the worst ever in the history of the state.
Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Taoists, Muslims, Jews and more are all raising money volunteering in many ways to bring relief to their fellow Angelenos.
Singh is a member of United Sikhs, a U.N.-affiliated, faith-based group that in the past has been deployed to disaster areas — from hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, for example — and also to war zones in Ukraine. This time, the group has turned its attention to the devastated Los Angeles area.
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