The Gesher Association is organizing a large-scale toy-collection project involving students from some 50 elementary and junior high schools around the country. The students went from house to house collecting playthings for needy children, and the toys are being distributed today, the second day of the eight-day holiday of Chanukah. The name of the project: "Contributing to Society: It's Child's Play."
In a similar vein, Arutz-7's Yosef Zalmanson reports that he happened upon a car-window fitting garage as it was closing the other day - and found that it had been turned into a giant food distribution center. Some 30 volunteers were busy fillings bags with hundreds of kilos of some 15 varieties of fruits, vegetables, and other foods, as they do every Wednesday. Asking for an explanation, he learned that they were there on behalf of the Nitzav Rafael organization, a little-known group that sends food packages to no fewer than 470 needy families in the Jerusalem area every week. Among the volunteers were high school students and adults, religious and secular, Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The organization also runs a free-lunch kitchen in Kiryat HaYovel where it feeds some 100 people a day. For more information, call (02)651-8944.
In a similar vein, Arutz-7's Yosef Zalmanson reports that he happened upon a car-window fitting garage as it was closing the other day - and found that it had been turned into a giant food distribution center. Some 30 volunteers were busy fillings bags with hundreds of kilos of some 15 varieties of fruits, vegetables, and other foods, as they do every Wednesday. Asking for an explanation, he learned that they were there on behalf of the Nitzav Rafael organization, a little-known group that sends food packages to no fewer than 470 needy families in the Jerusalem area every week. Among the volunteers were high school students and adults, religious and secular, Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The organization also runs a free-lunch kitchen in Kiryat HaYovel where it feeds some 100 people a day. For more information, call (02)651-8944.