WSO launches much-needed Sikh Men­tor­ship Pro­gram

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With an in­creas­ing num­ber of Sikhs en­ter­ing Canada, and a grow­ing lo­cal pop­u­la­tion, there has al­ways been a dire need to con­nect Sikh youth to pro­fes­sion­als and fa­mil­iar­ize them with the chal­lenges in ed­u­ca­tion and em­ploy­ment. Re­spond­ing to this, the World Sikh Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Canada has an­nounced the launch of a much-needed Sikh Men­tor­ship Pro­gram.

The Sikh Men­tor­ship Pro­gram is de­signed to con­nect Sikh pro­fes­sion­als with Sikh stu­dents (16+) who are seek­ing guid­ance and di­rec­tion aca­d­e­m­i­cally or pro­fes­sion­ally and men­tor-mentee match­ing.”

The Sikh Men­tor­ship Pro­gram par­tially spon­sored by the Gov­ern­ment of Canada and Takin­gIT­Global will in­clude work­shops, pan­els, and net­work­ing events and will be­gin in Feb­ru­ary 2019.

Sikh Mentorship Program

Though many men­tors hail­ing from di­verse in­dus­try back­grounds –from fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive to health-care providers are al­ready reg­is­tered, ap­pli­ca­tions are open for mentees and men­tors.

De­lighted at the launch of this new ini­tia­tive, WSO Pres­i­dent Mukhbir Singh said, “Cre­at­ing a pro­gram that will es­tab­lish net­works and re­la­tion­ships be­tween the younger gen­er­a­tion and suc­cess­ful Sikh pro­fes­sion­als is a need that the com­mu­nity has ex­pressed to us for some time.”

“We look for­ward to ex­pand­ing the Sikh Men­tor­ship Pro­gram men­tor match­ing ini­tia­tive into other provinces across Canada shortly af­ter this ini­tial ini­tia­tive in British Co­lum­bia.”

WSO Board Mem­ber Gur­preet Kaur added, “As a uni­ver­sity stu­dent my­self, there are many times that I have felt lost and con­fused, whether that be ap­ply­ing for jobs, ap­ply­ing to grad­u­ate pro­grams, or just seek­ing guid­ance about po­ten­tial ca­reer paths. Con­nect­ing with pro­fes­sion­als, who are al­ready es­tab­lished and been through sim­i­lar jour­neys has been so help­ful, and has greatly helped ad­vance both my per­sonal and pro­fes­sional goals.”

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“Pro­vid­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties to con­nect with pro­fes­sion­als and en­gage in a men­tor-mentee re­la­tion­ship through the Sikh Men­tor­ship Pro­gram will be ex­tremely ben­e­fi­cial to not only stu­dents, but it will also pay long term div­i­dends for the Sikh com­mu­nity. I’m very ex­cited about this ini­tia­tive and am look­ing for­ward to shar­ing it with my peers,” she added.

For full de­tails of the pro­gram, log on to world­sikh.org/​smp.

Sur­rey, Canada, 15 Jan­u­ary 2019, WSN News Bu­reau

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