Saturday 26 September 2026
Grade 9 to 12 students across Toronto, Peel and Hamilton do one seva project a month from September to May. Food banks, shelters, tree planting, warm langar downtown. Then your team plans and runs a project of your own, paid for by Khalsa Aid. Free to join, and we sign off your community involvement hours.
The Khalsa Aid Youth Leadership program runs from September 2026 to May 2027, and it is built to turn high school students into people who can organize, lead, and serve without waiting to be asked. Over the year you will build skills you can use anywhere: public speaking, event planning, budgeting, fundraising, running a team, and the confidence to hold a real conversation with any adult in the room. You will serve at shelter drop-offs and downtown homeless seva, support the FCJ Refugee Centre, run jacket, grocery and toy drives, plant trees with the City of Brampton and Credit Valley Conservation, help at langar seva and health screening clinics, and walk with us at Nagar Kirtan. You will work directly with City officials and community partners, and you will meet and network with professionals worth asking questions of: medical students, doctors, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and politicians. Our leadership seminars cover how students actually get into the toughest and most competitive Ontario university programs, taught by people who got in and by the students sitting in those programs right now. Then, at the end of the year, you stop helping with someone else's project. You and your team design and run your own seva project, and Khalsa Aid funds it.
Public speaking, event planning, budgets, fundraising, and leading a team of your peers. These go on your application and into the rest of your life.
City officials, community partners, medical students, doctors, entrepreneurs, lawyers and politicians. Ask them how they got there. They will tell you.
The year ends with a capstone your team designs, budgets, and delivers. Khalsa Aid pays for it. You run it.
We would rather you decide with the full picture than find out later.
Before we can enrol any teen, we send an online consent form to their parent or guardian to read and sign. No student is enrolled until that form comes back signed. Please read it properly rather than scrolling to the signature.
Here is what we need you to understand. Our seva takes teens across Toronto and the GTA, and we drive them to areas where vulnerable people live, including downtown streets, shelters, and refugee centres. There is a small risk in that. It is small, but it is real, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Khalsa Aid Canada has never had a safety incident in our youth seva. We intend to keep it that way, and we work at it. But every parent signing this form should go in with their eyes open, not on the assumption that nothing can ever go wrong.
This program only runs because grown-ups show up alongside the teens. If any of these is you, tick the box in the form below.
Not signing up a student, but want to help anyway? Email abinaash.kaur@khalsaaid.org with your name and we will get you started. Drivers need a valid licence and their own insurance.
We are looking for parents to volunteer. Drive, supervise, carry boxes, or just be another steady adult in the group. You do not need any experience, and you will see exactly what your teen is doing.
We would love older brothers and sisters to come out with their younger siblings. It changes how a teen shows up when family is doing the seva beside them.
University students are very welcome. Many become the mentors our teens look up to, and you are the ones who can honestly answer how you got into your program.
September 2026 through May 2027. Some details are still being confirmed and will be updated here.
The seminars are mandatory. There are 4 of them: Sun 18 October, Sat 9 January, Sun 21 February and Sun 16 May. Everything else is a seva project, and we ask you to join at least one a month.
One date still needs confirming. Leadership Workshop Session 1 is listed as a Sunday on 9 January 2027, but that date falls on a Saturday. We are confirming with the team and will update this page.
Fill this in and a member of our team will email the parent consent form to the address you give us, usually within three days. Enrolment is confirmed once that form comes back signed. If it has not arrived within a week, email abinaash.kaur@khalsaaid.org.
This year, let it be you. Sign up, bring a friend, and we will take it from there.
Sign Up for 2026/2027