Nigeria: Indian Sikh Community in Lagos Hosts Indigent Persons for Harvest Festival

A Lagos-based group of Indians, from ancient Sikh community, which is into various social services, through its feeding the poor program, has fed more about 100 people in Ilupeju area of Lagos State at the weekend, as part of activities to commemorate the Indian tradition of celebrating harvest among the country's nationals who are resident in Lagos.

The festival is held in high esteem among farmers in India. However, the Sikh community, all over the world, runs free community kitchens, which provide meals to all and it is funded by volunteers. In traditional Indian society, people of high and low caste were rigidly segregated, but the Sikh community kitchen is carried out to combat the social problem.

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