7 The Poor and The Hungry: • A Chicken each Week in Jerusalem (page 7) • Helping Indigent Families of the Israeli Border Patrolmen (p. 8) • A Sandwich a Day for Every Child in Israel (p. 9-10) • Feeding the Poor, Health Clinic and Job Training in Boca Raton (p. 11) • Leket – Israel’s National Food Bank (p. 12) • Poverty in the Gaza-Border City of Sderot (p. 13) • Helping Discharged IDF Soldiers from Disadvantaged Backgrounds (p. 14) • Job Training for the Poor in Guatemala (p. 15) • The Basics of All Needs in Kenya (p. 16) • Hands On Tzedakah Emergency Assistance Programs o Boca Raton and Delray Beach (p. 17) o Northern Israel (p. 18) o Boynton Beach (p. 19) • Volunteers Feeding the Hungry & Helping Troubled Teens in Israel (p. 20) A Chicken a Week in Jerusalem Four years ago, a selfless 90-year-old woman who had spent 77 years helping others died. For the last 45 years of her life Bracha Kapach maintained a weekly distribution of food to families in need. The families came from all over Jerusalem and were a cross-section of Israeli society; all of whom had been referred to her by the municipal social welfare department. HOT bought her a freezer and has supplied approximately 40 chickens, each weighing approximately 4 pounds, every week (with an additional chicken or two for the holidays) for the last twelve years. These chickens are a source of protein that is sadly lacking from most of the recipients’ diets. Although Bracha Kapach died four years ago, her work is continuing. Her grandchildren learned the importance of helping others, and as a living memorial to their grandmother they are continuing her work. HOT can think of no finer memorial to a woman who spent her life helping others! The list of hungry malnourished families continues to grow. $511 buys a chicken a week for a new family for an entire year. Last Fall a donor had us take 9 families off the waiting list. Unfortunately, in October we will no longer have funding for these 9 families and we will go back to having 56 families on the waiting list. HOT would like its donors to designate $28,616 (in multiples of $511) so we can give a chicken a week to each of these 56 families.