Nova Scotia woman heading to Turkey to provide aid after devastating earthquake | 24CA News
A Nova Scotia girl is heading to Turkey to supply support after a robust earthquake devastated the area final week.
Mandeep Dhunna says she couldn’t sit again and watch reduction efforts from the consolation of her house. She’s one among two volunteers leaving Canada on Thursday to supply help by Khalsa Aid International.
“My parents are worried and my kids are worried about me and I said, ‘Don’t worry, I’m strong’,” she recollects about sharing the news of her departure.
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Dhunna says as she watched the tragedy unfold in Turkey and Syria, she instantly requested her husband what they might do to assist.
They’ve volunteered with Khalsa Aid in Nova Scotia since 2016, offering meals at shelters, masks to front-line staff through the pandemic and serving to provide worldwide college students with heat coats for the winter.
Dhunna knew she might assist in Turkey after studying the non-profit humanitarian group had groups on the bottom.
Mandeep Dhunna has been volunteering in Halifax with Khalsa Aid International since 2016.
Courtesy: Khalsa Aid International
“I’m not worried about it, I just wanted to go,” she says. “I pray to God to give me more strength, whatever I have there I can do for people.”
When Dhunna arrives she’ll be part of volunteers in handing out meals, blankets and drugs to these in want.
She says many have misplaced a lot and are actually residing on the streets and in shelters in addition to tents making an attempt to remain secure amid freezing temperatures.
Mandeep Dhunna is pictured throughout her volunteer work in Halifax with Khalsa Aid International.
Courtesy: Khalsa Aid International
Dhunna can be there for one week and is ready for the worst.
“I told my husband if I come back, I’m happy. If I don’t come back, something happened, which is fine, don’t be sad,” she says. “I have no regrets or anything.”
She expects lengthy days, working as much as 17-hour shifts with the humanitarian group, which is impressed by the Sikh precept to “recognise the whole human race as one.”
“That’s our motto — ‘to do’ — that’s why I wanted to go there,” She says. “Not to sit home and say … I wish there was something I could do.”
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Dhunna will convey alongside a primary support equipment, heat garments, and an influence financial institution to assist along with her journey.
She says it’s vital to recollect only one particular person could make a giant distinction.
“If somebody can do something,” she says. “We ought to try this. Because your little little bit of assist possibly saves any person’s life.
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