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PETALING JAYA: An idea seeded at an apartment in the Klang Valley a decade ago has now germinated into a club that has given many individuals and families in the Sikh community a new lease of life.
The Ekta Club of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor — an organisation of women professionals from the Sikh community — now plans to expand its community programmes to include helping senior citizens, apart from underprivileged families and youth cope with life’s challenges.
Kuldip Kaur, a lawyer and founding member of Ekta, said the club serves as a platform for women professionals such as lawyers, doctors, financial experts and professionals in the creatives industry to give back to the community.
“We now have 74 members, all committed to run regular workshops on medical and legal issues, as well as youth development and welfare needs,” she told FMT.
The club had its start on Sept 9, 2015, when Kuldip and 11 friends met at her apartment, where she “sold the idea to them”.
They chose the name “Ekta”, which means “oneness” in Hindi and Punjabi, and set up a pro-tem committee with Kuldip as president.
Even before the club was registered, it was already raising funds by selling bags with Ekta labels.
With the help of two lawyers from the group, the Ekta Club was officially registered in 2016 and had its first formal meeting in 2017.
Over the past 10 years, the club members have held workshops in gurdwaras, helped underprivileged families and organised medical talks and health screenings, and career talks for youths.
“We have also been giving talks on domestic violence, gender equality and financial scams,” Kuldip said.
She said one of Ekta’s key efforts is supporting underprivileged families, with the group’s primary focus now on one family with six children living in a two-bedroom apartment.
“We have been contributing monthly to the family and supervising the children’s education and (underwriting the) cost,” said Kuldip.
Ekta’s 10th anniversary was marked with a fundraising dinner on Aug 2, where RM550,000 was raised through table sales, raffle tickets, advertisements, donations and pledges.
The money will be spent on financing the club’s community service activities.
Kuldip said for next year, the members hope to adopt more deserving families and plan to set up a senior citizens’ daycare centre that runs from 9am to 6pm.
She said Ekta now cares for 50 senior citizens, bringing them to high teas and other activities.
“That was how the idea of creating an activity centre came up,” she said, adding that such a centre would help the seniors socialise, make new friends and interact.
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