b'Community Service in the FSUHOT has always looked to partner withorganizationsthatencourage communityservice.Wethinkof thisastheultimateleverage teachingpeopletheimportanceof helping others while simultaneously givinghelptotheneedy.Onthe pagefacingthispage(page31for those of you reading this online) you havereadaboutourhowwehave partnered with Hillel chapters helping college students learn to want to, and actually, help others.Two years ago, we found the right partner to work with in the former Soviet Union (FSU). HOT committed to a 3-year project that encourages scores of young people to understand the importance of helping those less fortunate. We are piggybacking on work done over the last 25 years in the FSU by our new partner, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).For the past 17 years, JDC has successfully run a program (Metsuda) in the FSU training young people to give back to their communities.HOTs 3-year grant is primarily used to fund 2part-timecoordinators,onelocatedinRostov-on-DonandtheotherinKrasnodar.The coordinatorsareworkingwith83graduates of the JDC program to identify local unmet communityneeds,tocreateworkplans, activities, action groups, seminars and other events.ParticipantsintheHOT/JDC Programnowdrivetootherpartsofthe country to give classes or seminars on their particularskillset.Oneoftheparticipants travels give a monthly Health and Wellness Seminartoteens.Andanother,aSports Medicinephysiciantravelstoworkwith seniors, The Program is all that HOT thought itwouldbewithvolunteershelpingboth special-needs and at-risk children, the elderly. and is restoring traditions that had been lost during years of living under governments that did not encourage such practices. It is reversing years of isolation and making the population, young and old, realize they are not alone.WhileHOTsbasicfundingistoencouragevolunteerism,severalprojectsrequire programming costs and make up a wish list of:$1,500 for a Festival of Modern Jewish Dance Music $4,536 for food, medicine, and other necessities for 18 seniors @ $21 a month $5,540 for 1,385 hours of homecare (bathing, cooking, cleaning) @ $4 an hour32'