DELIVERING COMMUNITY CARE
WITH COMPASSION

Delivering community care with compassion

FOOD INSECURITY IS INCREASING ACROSS OUR COMMUNITY

Your gift is providing food relief to our vulnerable community members.

Poverty is a reality for some 20% of Montreal Jews who struggle to meet both their basic human needs as well as their individual Jewish needs. The Covid-19 pandemic further pushed the needle towards a rising number of households experiencing financial distress.

In partnership with the support of the Jewish Community Foundation, and the support of our donors, we were able to support the increased demand for food around both Rosh Hashanah and Passover by allocating funds to four organizations that provide food security relief to thousands of community members. This partnership allowed us to expand our reach and ensured that those who were in need received access to healthy food, and for isolated community members, an opportunity to celebrate the Jewish holidays with dignity.

Three female Zera Café workers, standing in café kitchen, wearing masks, gloves, and aprons
Three female Zera Café workers, standing in café kitchen, wearing masks, gloves, and aprons

THANKS TO YOUR GIFT…

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was allocated for poverty relief and food security
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food security support and basic essentials interventions
were made to houselholds requiring support over the rosh hashanah and passover holidays
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children’s lives were touched by this assistance
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kosher meals-on-wheels were delivered in the span of one year

MANY HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN OUR COMMUNITY WERE ALREADY IMPOVERISHED—THEN THE PANDEMIC HIT

Your gift is bringing support to hundreds of our community’s survivors.

31% of Montreal’s Holocaust survivors are living in poverty.

Many of our Holocaust survivors are experiencing a deterioration of physical and psychological health. An increasing number of Holocaust survivors in our community live alone with limited family and social support—and many have been isolated due to the pandemic.

THANKS TO YOUR GIFT…

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kosher meals-on-wheels received financial assistance to meet their basic needs
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allocated to help our survivors with food, medication, rent, and other urgent items
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elderly and homebound individuals received books during lockdown from the Jewish public library’s book-on-wheels book program
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care calls made to isolated seniors
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interventions made to vulnerable, isolated seniors requiring support or timely information

AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEEDS ARE ON THE RISE IN OUR COMMUNITY

Your gift is helping to create community through affordable housing.

Access to good quality, affordable housing can help reduce and often break the cycle of poverty and promote long-term self-sufficiency.  With the pressures of increasing inflation—hitting a new 31-year high of 6.8% in April—the cost of housing, food, and necessities are becoming more expensive daily.  Far too many families are spending a disproportionate amount of their disposable income on rent, and are left with insufficient resources to meet their other basic needs. Persons living with disabilities and their families, as well as other vulnerable members of the community throughout Montreal continue to require support.