Galila is a grassroots organization formed for the primary purpose of improving the daily lives of impoverished residents of the Galilee region of Israel, primarily in the towns that border Lebanon. Included in the people they help are 380 “Holocaust and Ghetto Survivors,” almost all who came from the FSU. These Survivors are attempting to live on meager pensions and meager supplementary support from government agencies. Galila attempts to make their final years more bearable by sending in people to help in their apartments, purchasing and distributing as much clothing, shoes, heaters, fans, glasses, hearing aids, and other day-to-day necessities as Galila’s meager budget permits. Additionally, twice a year Galila had been distributing 300 shekels ($86 @ 3.51 NIS to the US dollar) of food and clothing vouchers redeemable at local stores to all 380 of these needy Survivors.
HOT, in addition to $10,200 of grants made earlier this year to pay for shoes and other necessities of survivors, just forwarded $6,495 to Galila so that for Rosh Hashanah they can give out 360 NIS ($103) in vouchers per survivor.
We are asking our donors to designate all or part of another $6,495 so the Passover distribution can also be $103 and/or to designate dollars in multiples of $3,430 (the approximate target dollars needed to fully help the average needs of a survivor).
Galila does more than help survivors. Please click here to see the work it does for youth at risk.