Sahaita is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco(Bay Area), California, USA and has chapters in India and Canada.

Sahaita is a childhood dream of mine being able to make a difference in the life of someone within this world. A dream cultivated by a childhood friend whose desire to be a great physician was crushed by family circumstances. It is a dream, which was nurtured and kept alive with encouragement from my grandparents and parents. After becoming a physician with the struggles in life and traveling different roads, I reached California and took the first step of Sahaita in 1991 when we adopted our daughter Samreen which changed our life. People always say we did a good deed but I always think we owe it to our daughter to have given us a chance to be part of a dream to help someone. We went on to adopt our son Ashvin in 1995 and these two children of ours have given us so much love and affection that there are not enough words to describe how we feel.

I have been carrying the mission of helping the needy and disabled children without even my own family knowing about it and since then I have never looked back. It has been my intention to go back to India and open a charitable clinic. The tsunami disaster in December 2004 changed my life and I could not watch the horrible waves of death and destruction and the cries of the innocent people, especially the children with grief stricken faces looking for someone to hold their hands. It moved me beyond description. My daughter’s desire for me to do something and my children’s constant requests for us to adopt someone from these children prompted me to do something, and that something was a fundraiser that took place in January 2005. The encouragement of my family and friends was good enough for me to go out and get more and more donations for this and anyone whom I could approach I did and asked for donations.

The month of February brought another challenge in the form of a young child in India needing renal transplant and the mother was going to donate her kidney but they needed Good Samaritan to help with funds. I decided to take this challenge and we raised enough funds from community to be able to get this child her kidney transplant and will fund part of her treatment after the transplant. Some donors asked if I had a non-profit status and if I would give a tax deductible receipt. My wife said, “Harkesh , you have always wanted to go back and do charitable work, may be you can start from here and go there when needed.” This impetus and ongoing desire to be able to help and the dream of my lifetime helped me in starting this non-profit organization called “Sahaita Inc.” At present, its main supporters are family and very close friends with common interest of helping the poor children and elderly. We hope our message of hope and help will spread and more individuals will join Sahaita’s journey to bring a smile on an innocent child or elderly face.

Harkesh Singh Sandhu M.D.

Sahaita will help to provide resources that are readily available to the needy children and elderly regardless of their status, background, religion or caste.

We will help to provide resources in the following areas:

• Providing equal opportunity and resources to needy children and elderly regardless of their status, background, religion, or caste
• Organizing charitable clinics that provide preventive health education and immunizations in California and India
• Providing help to shelters for orphans, disabled children and adults
• Providing education tools for less fortunate children of California and Punjab
• Helping other charitable organizations working for the welfare of children and poverty stricken communities around the world

Sahaita Officers

President: Dr. Harkesh Singh Sandhu
Secretary: Ms. Avninder Sandhu
Treasurer: Mr. Harpal Singh Harika
Assistant Treasurer: Sarup Singh Jhajj

Sahaita Board of Directors

Dr. Harkesh Singh Sandhu
Dr. Devinder Singh Sandhu
S. Bhupinder Singh Parmar
S. Inderjit Singh Chahal
S. Kashmir Singh Gill
Ms. Ruby Waraich
Ms. Gurpreet Kaur Johal
Mr. Taj Mann (Director of Special Projects and Funding)

Sahaita Executive Board

S. Amritpal Singh Sra Ms. Surinderjit Kaur Mahal S. Billy Bath S. Sarabjit Singh Mann S. Surjit Singh Bains S. Pradeep Singh S. Jaswant Singh Hothi S. Avtar Singh (Tari) S. Hardeep Singh Aulakh Mr. Satin Khera Mr. Rajpreet Singh

Mr. Gaurav Kumar Mr. Sukhbir Singh Ms. Juggy Jaspal Sumeet Sandhu Damandeep Bedwal Harmanpreet Bedwal Kiren Chima Gurdip Singh

Fundraising Committee

Sarup Singh Jhajj (Coordinator)
Satin Khera
Sukhbir Singh
Jasdeep Singh
Harinder Grewal
Antarpal Singh Jhajj
Madhu Dhillon

Coordinators

Northern California: Ms. Juggy Jaspal
Southern California: Mr. Taj Mann
Healthcare Microinsurance Project: Supreet Maniktala

Healthcare Team

Dr. Jasdeep S. Bal Dr. Inderpal K. Bal Dr. Jagmohan S. Bhinder Dr. Jagmohan Singh Khera Dr. Sheila Dobee Dr. Dalvir Singh Pannu Ms. Kathleen Clancy Mrs. Surinder Kaur Mahal Ms. Terry walker Mr. Marvin Nichollas ( JJ) Mr. Sukhbir Singh Ms. Juggy Jaspal Mr. Gaurev Kumar Dr. Amanpreet Kaur Mr. Sunny Sekhon Mr. Gagandeep Singh Kandola Ms. Sandeep Kaur Mr. Varinder Johal Ms. Harinder Johal

Mr. Uttampal Singh Ms. Jasmine Singla Ms. Karmjit Kaur Sidhu Dr.Jaspreet kaur Dr.Davinder Shokar Dr. Ramnik Josan Ms. Samreen Sandhu Mr. and Mrs. Avtar Singh Mrs. Upkaar K. Mangat Ms. Jasleen Dhillon Manmeet Singh Mita Patel Joy Meier Wafa Samara Arthur Swislocki Anne Swislocki Deloris Menisini Dr. Maninder Sandhu

Sahaita India

President: Dr. Rajinder Singh
Treasurer: Mr. Naval Kishor Sharma
Secretary: Dr. Santosh
Project Director: Dr. Ajaib Singh
Medical Director: Dr. Satish Ohri
Media Adviosr: Mr. Janmeja S. Johal
Director Special Projects and Funding: Garima Kaur (Hyderabad)

Executive Members:

Mr. Harpal Singh Mr. Rohit Sharma Mr. Parminder Singh Mr. Hardeep Singh Sur Mr. Rajwinderjit Singh

Contacts in India

Dr. Rajinder Singh (Ophthalmologist)
117A Model Town Extension
Pakhowal Road, Ludhiana ,Punjab
Tel #161-2450117

Dr. Hardeep Singh Sur
Ludhiana, Punjab, India

S. Parminder Singh Sandhu
Raipur Sagnewal, Phillaur
Jallandhar, Punjab, India

Mr. Janmeja Singh Johl
2920 Gurdev Nagar,
Ludhiana, Punjab
Tel : 91-98159-45018

Dr. Kuldeepak Singh Kular
Village and Post Office Bija,
Ludhiana, 141412

Sahaita Canada

Board Members

S. Gurmeet Singh Dhaliwal
S. M P Singh
S. Hardeep Singh Gill
S. Parmjit Singh Sanghera
Dr. Upninderjit singh (Dr. Jogi)

Contacts in Canada

Dr. Upinderjit Singh Harrad (Dr. Jogi)
Suite 201, 7110 Av 120th street
Surrey, BC V3W 3M8, Canada
Tel # 604-592-6660

S. Mohit Singh
32608 Murray Avenue, Abbotsford,
BC V2T 4T5, Canada

Dr. Harbir Singh
28 Pardon Ave.
Whitby, Ontario, Canada L1P1V1

S. Surinder Singh Sandhu,
Caledon, Ontario, Canada
Tel : 905-843-1391