Helping Others

• Darshan Dhaliwal sponsors the Fourth of July fireworks each year in Mequon.
• He spent $1 million setting up a chair at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for a professor familiar with Indian culture.
• He donated to every Sikh house of worship in the country, and to causes affiliated with other religions.
• Sep. 11donation: After meeting with President Bush in Washington, a Sikh gas station owner said he will donate 2 cents a gallon from gas sold at more than 70 stations to a relief fund for victims of the Sept.11 attacks.
  
• He contributed $100,000 for a soccer park used by the Mequon United Soccer Club and donates $7,500 a year to the organization.
• In 2002, Darshan Singh Dhaliwal has donated a sum of Rs 4 million to Punjab Public School, Nabha, in Patiala district
• "Did I tell you I built a house for Habitat for Humanity in the inner city?" Dhaliwal asks, running through a mental list of his contributions.
• "If somebody else wants to organize something, he will try to overdo it to show he's the only one," says Jay Walia, a fellow member of the Indian community in Milwaukee. "If somebody else in the community wants to do something, he feels threatened easily."
• Dhaliwal also contributes to politicians, a practice that has become a point of contention in the swirl around the Citgo station.
• Mr. Dhaliwal has supported Punjabi Cultural Society of Chicago since its inception
• In 2004, NRI American Sikh businessman from Mequon in Wisconsin has announced donating $200,000 to the University of Wisconsin- Parkside for reviving its dormant Modern Language Laboratory.
• Tsunami Donation In 2005, Darshan Dhaliwal, president of the Bulk Petroleum Corp., Mequon, Wis., spent more than $1.2 million on mattresses, blankets, medicine and other goods immediately following the disastrous tsunami that hit South Asia in December
• In 2005, Dhaliwal made a $20,000 donation toward the purchase and installation of smoke detectors for Milwaukee-area homes

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