A SLOUGH-based Sikh charity is going from strength to strength after its work has gone viral across a number of major websites.

Ravinder Singh, the founder of the chairty Khalsa Aid - based in Whitby Road, Slough - last week posted photos on his Twitter of him making a young girls dreams come true, which has since been picked up by websites such as BuzzFeed.

Mr Singh visited Erbil, northern Iraq, to help fit water filters at a makeshift camp for people who have no homes, and saw a young Yezidi refugee brought to tears after not receiving a toy from a local man who handed out gifts to children.

Mr Singh then put down his tools and travelled to the nearest market to buy the young girl a toy, and told of his overwhelming feeling when he saw the smile it brought to her face.

He said: “I asked her father why is she crying, and he told me that it was because she hadn’t been given a toy - it was like the end of the world for her.

“These people are surrounded by hundreds of miles of devastating heat, that reaches almost 50 degrees, so a simple gesture like that can make all the difference.”

The charity is currently working to deliver clothes and food in Yemen, where Mr Singh describes the current Yemen Civil War as ‘a silent war’.

He said: “We’re doing a lot of work in Yemen at the moment, and nobody seems to be talking about the crisis there. It’s like a silent war.”

Mr Singh added that the story of the young girl going viral has helped to raise awareness for the Middle East, and hopes more can be done to save innocent people.

He added: “I think the story going viral has had much more of an impact on the reality of the refugees in the Middle East, which I am grateful for.”

Khalsa Aid was established in 1999 and is an international non-profit organisation founded on the Sikh principles of selfless service and universal love.

Visit www.khalsaaid.org