The Founders
The Guru Nanak Mission Netarheen Bridh Ashram was born from the quiet courage and profound compassion of four lifelong friends, led by my father, Ustad Sital Singh Sitara, alongside Avtar Singh Mann, Gian Singh Surjit and Rajinder Singh Bhatti.
As children growing up in Punjab, each of them lived with blindness and knew hardship intimately. Yet they refused to allow adversity to shape the limits of their lives. Instead, they devoted themselves to the sacred tradition of Sikh devotional music, mastering their craft and, in the early 1970s, journeying to England as professional religious singers. Though they had found opportunity abroad, they never forgot those they had left behind. United by gratitude, faith and a deep sense of seva (selfless service), they shared a single vision: that no blind person, elderly person or orphan in Punjab should ever feel forgotten or alone.
From that vision, the Guru Nanak Missionary Blind Society was established in Britain in 1988. Together, they gave generously of their own resources, inspired others to do the same, and raised the funds to purchase land in the village of Sapror, Punjab, where that vision could take root and begin to flourish.
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