BJCC hosts Project
HOPE Passover Food Package Delivery
WHO: Bronx Jewish Community
Council (BJCC)
What: On Sunday,
April 6th, hundreds of volunteers will join together to deliver over 500 Passover
food packages to home-bound Jewish elderly. Project HOPE is a semi-annual event
where over 300 volunteers deliver food packages by foot and by car to low
income and isolated older adults. Often, these volunteers are the only visitors
to seniors’ home all week and many times seniors welcome young volunteers and
their families to stay for a visit.
“Generations of Volunteers have
been coming every year to deliver packages. We have had some volunteers who
have been doing it all their lives and have now passed it on to their children.
It’s such a wonderful Bronx-wide service project.” –Niti Minkove, Director of
Volunteers.
The involvement of youth and
families in helping BJCC spread the spirit of the holidays has become an
important resource for our community, especially those clients who depend on
us. Seniors are the most vulnerable population in our community, but knowing
that we can count on our volunteers to personally deliver these packages and brighten
the day of each and every single person we reach, demonstrates how easy it is
to make a difference.
When: Sunday, April 6 2014
9:30am
– 11:00am
Where: Distribution will take place out of two sites:
• Co-op
City: B'nai B’rith Building, 2050 Bartow Ave Bronx, NY 10475
• Ampark: 95
Gale Place, Bronx, NY 10463 (Community Room #9, in the Corner of Orloff Ave. and
Gale Pl.)
ABOUT: The
Bronx Jewish Community Council is a non-profit, no-sectarian community based
social service organization whose assistance is available to all low income
Bronx residents. BJCC specializes in assessing needy Bronx residents’ problems
- especially those of seniors aging in place – finding holistic solutions and
helping them remain comfortably in their homes and communities. Services range
from emergency assistance to providing connections to benefits and
entitlements, care management, mental health outreach, home attendants and
other life-sustaining services. In 2012, the Food Pantry fed more than 31,000 individuals, most were under the
age of 60 and more than one-third were children. BJCC operates 3 Naturally
Occurring Retirement Communities (NORC) programs, which help improve the
quality of life of approximately 1,500 constituents annually who are often
isolated elderly. For further information, visit www.bjcconline.org
