The School Needs Your Help for a Permanent Home

Since our inception in January 2004, we have grown from 30 students to about 50 in five different levels. This growth has led to several challenges, most notably the need for more classrooms. In November 2007, we moved to the new Claude Moore Community Center. While this new facility is bigger, we will continue to incur rental expenses of around $12,000 per year, that too only for the weekend use.

In a survey conducted of GAISS families in January 2007, there was overwhelming desire to look for an alternative solution which would give GAISS a permanent home. Of the available solutions, the most attractive was to jointly buy-in to a facility with the local Sikh community (Raj Khalsa Gurdwara) where many of our students and their families are part of the local Sangat. Raj Khalsa Gurdwara is currently considering options for expansion and we are planning to buy an approx. 2000 sq. ft. facility adjoining their new place. Whether we do that or have a totally independent facillity we will need to cover all the expenses of that facility, meaning will have to pay a down payment (approx. $80K for a $400K bldg.), convert it into a working school and pay the requisite monthly mortgage.