HOT supplies a monthly “basic food package” (with special supplements for the holidays) to 50 indigent families of patrolmen and 40 single members of the Jerusalem Border Patrol (the men and women who guard Israel’s borders and prevent terrorist infiltrations) who have no relatives in Israel and/or have been identified by the Army welfare officer as being in severe financial distress.
All the food is bought at wholesale or below. All the packages are prepared by volunteers. All the transportation and delivery is carried out by the Border Patrol. The food packages include cereal, rice, soup mix, tuna, halva, techina, canned fruit, mayonnaise, pickles, sugar, pasta, couscous, tea, corn and soap.
We would like to raise as much as $25,000 in designated funds, to supplement our basic grant of $45,000 so we can to either add more families to the program or to increase what we give to those we already help.