Volunteer
Pack groceries, serve langar, drive a delivery route or help a book drive reach one more school. There is a place for every pair of hands.
- Weekly food seva
- Book distribution
- Events and langar
- Translation and media
Serve with us
Seva is love
made practical.
Seva means selfless service. Langar means a free meal served to everyone as an equal. Together they are the whole of what we do — every Sunday in Edmonton, for anyone who comes.
Why we serve
Everyone participating in the langar congregation sits together as equals, completely diminishing the hierarchical stratification of society.
What we run
The programmes
Three programmes, one principle: share and serve without any discrimination, so that everyone is treated with dignity and care.
- Running now
All Is One Food Bank
Langar served from 4954 Roper Road, open every Sunday. What began as a tent outside the Bissell Centre now has a home, and the doors stay open to anyone who walks through them.
Sundays · Roper Road, Edmonton
- Running now
Grocery hampers
Volunteers pack hampers of flour, lentils, fresh produce and milk for families across Edmonton — sorted, boxed and handed over with no forms and no questions.
Weekly · Volunteer-packed
- 2014 – 2020
Seva Food Truck
Meals delivered to students at low-income schools in Edmonton’s inner city, served langar-style in the school gyms. We ate together with the students, and it became a mentorship programme as much as a meal programme.
Spruce Avenue School · Calder School
Our story
Inspired by langar, turned into action
The institution of langar provides free meals to all members of society, regardless of race, class, caste, religion, creed or any other false social division. Everyone sits together as equals. That idea is where we began.
- $500K
- raised for langar and education
- 50,000+
- people served
- 17
- years of seva, since 2009
- 2014
The Seva Food Truck
On 14 February 2014 our volunteers began delivering meals to students at low-income schools in Edmonton’s inner city. We set tables in the school gyms and ate together with the students, langar-style. What began monthly at Spruce Avenue School for around 300 students grew to biweekly across Spruce Avenue and Calder. It became a mentorship programme as much as a meal programme, and it ran until gathering limits ended it in 2020.
- 2015
The All Is One Food Bank
In the summer of 2015 our team began preparing langar for around 400 people every Saturday morning, trucking it downtown in food carriers and serving from a tent — first outside the Bissell Centre, later at the Hope Mission Centre. The programme ran weekly for about nine months of every year.
- Today
Roper Road, and beyond
The food bank now serves from 4954 Roper Road, open every Sunday, alongside our grocery hamper packing. Our free book distribution has reached communities across India, and the All is One app carries Guru Granth Sahib teachings in many languages, free to anyone.
A Sunday at the food bank in Edmonton. We operate with total transparency — our financials are available on request.
Come and serve
Volunteer with us →There is a place for every pair of hands
No experience is needed and no commitment is too small. Come on a Sunday, or write to us and we will find you a place.
Edmonton, AB T6B 3T8allisone1469@gmail.com
780-952-9066
Be part of the mission
Every act of service matters
However big or small, your help turns universal values into a meal on a table.
Donate
Your contribution covers the costs of our langar and educational programs. We operate with total transparency — financials are available on request.
- $25 — groceries for a family
- $60 — a box of books
- $150 — a week of langar
- Monthly giving welcome