Tell Me What You Are Doing
Send me the change you are bringing, and I will share it — so that no one builds alone
A few days ago, I wrote a short note asking a simple question: where are the Sikhs willing to come together and act for the next generation?
The response has moved me.
Many of you wrote. Many of you are already doing more than I knew. Some are teaching quietly in gurdwaras. Some are helping children at home. Some are supporting parents. Some are creating spaces where young Sikhs can ask questions without being shamed. Some are doing seva that almost no one sees.
So here is the next step.
If you are doing something — anything — to bring our children and young people closer to Guru, please tell me about it.
It does not need to be large.
It may be a weekly parent-and-child session in your gurdwara. It may be a youth space where hard questions are welcome. It may be a granthi who has begun explaining the hukamnama so a ten-year-old can follow it. It may be a few families reading one tuk together at home. It may be a Gurmukhi class, a Santhia class, a camp, a mentoring group, a school project, a kirtan session, or a quiet habit you have started in your own house.
Whatever it is, write and tell me.
Tell me where you are.
Tell me what you are doing.
Tell me who it is helping.
Tell me what is working.
Tell me what has not worked.
Tell me what you are learning as you go.
And tell me whether you are happy for the work to be named, or whether you would prefer it to be shared without names.
With your permission, I will write about it here on PanthSeva.
My reason is simple. A Sikh in one town is often trying to work out, alone, what a Sikh in another town has already begun to solve. A parent in Birmingham, a sangat in Toronto, a village in Doaba, a family in Melbourne, a youth group in California, a gurdwara in Delhi — each may be taking small steps, but often they cannot see one another.
If we share what is working, then one person’s effort becomes another person’s starting point.
One small step in one place can become a hundred steps in a hundred places.
This is not a call for grand schemes.
It is a call to make the good already happening visible, so it can be seen, learnt from, improved, and carried further.
Tell me what works.
Tell me what failed too. That may help someone else avoid the same mistake.
Tell me what support you need.
Tell me what others could copy.
Please do not send private details about children, vulnerable people, or families unless permission is clear. The aim is not to expose anyone. The aim is to share the work, protect dignity, and help the Panth learn from itself.
This is not about praising individuals.
It is not about one organisation.
It is about helping Sikhs see one another’s seva, so no one feels they are building alone.
Shabad Guru Granth Sahib Ji has given us the root. Now let us show one another how Sikhs are trying, in small and practical ways, to bring children back to that root.
So send it to me.
Reply to this post. I read every reply.
One small step, in one place, is how it begins.
Let us now see them all.
Bhul chuk maaf.
Gurjit Singh Sandhu
PanthSeva