b'Volunteers Feeding the Hungry and Helping Troubled Teens in Israel Shachen Tovin English, Good Neighbor Association (GNA)was started 21 years ago next July by a group of students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It feeds almost 1,000 families every week and performs other social service functions ranging from tutoring and running a textbook library for children, to friendly visiting for lonely elders. Three things make this organization unique: First, is that it has no employees. It is run 100% by volunteers. Second, is that while it was started by college students and continues to be predominantly a college student organization, many of its volunteers have finished college but still continue to volunteer. And third, it recognizes that while the elderly and the disabled must be helped for life, families that include one or more healthy parent should not receive continuous aid, and are told up front that they will be getting food for a maximum of one year.In Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and 5 other cities in Israel, GNA is feeding the unemployed and the underemployed who, without their help, would go to sleep with empty stomachs. Additionally, GNAhastakenvolunteeringtoanewlevelbyhelpingindigentpeopletodevelopself-confidence by encouraging them to give the only thing they have to offertime to help others.Incalendaryears2017,2018,and2019,HOTmade $163,558 of grants for food and grants of $17,270 to fund twoyearsofapilotprogramwheretroubledteensin Jerusalem come in to talk out their problems in a relaxed CoffeeShoptypesettingwitheithersocialworkers (paid by the City) or with GNA volunteers not much older than themselves. We have increased our grant for food to 20,000 shekels a month (a rate of $68,867 a year) through June 30, 2020 but that still leaves a shortage of approximately $81,000 that GNA needs to raise to continue to feed the 2,600 people it currently feeds. GNA has the volunteer manpower to distribute enough food to supply 250 additional familyunitswiththesupplementalfooditneedstoensureparents,children,singles (including the elderly and infirm) have sufficient nutritional meals for a year. They have ZERO overhead, dedicated volunteers and buy food at discounted prices.GNAs wish is to feed more people. On average $1,022. How much does HOT want you to designate to GNA? As much as you can in multiples of $1,022. 18'