Posts Tagged ‘Haiti’

Volunteers Needed:Packing Food

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

NECHAMA is partnering with Feed My Starving Children to pack up food for the victims in Haiti. You can make this a family experience, bring a friend or just come alone! This will be both rewarding and beneficial to all!
*Volunteers need to wear closed-toed shoes for safety reasons. Volunteers will be handling food ingredients (rice, dehydrated soy, dehydrated vegetables, and flavored vitamin powder). Volunteers should stay at home if they are not feeling well or if they have food allergies.
*Children must be in at least 3rd grade-8th grade must be accompanied by a parent, 5 High students my come with 1 adult (5 to 1 ratio)
*Volunteers with special needs, need to contact Feed My Starving Children ahead of time

Please join us to fill our time slots of 20 people each!
Eagan; 651.379.2775 990 Lone Oak Road, Suite 160, Eagan, MN 55121

Tuesday, March 23, 8-9:30pm 20 slots FILLED
Thursday, March 25 12-2pm 20 slots

Chanhassen: 952.937.2329 18738 Lake Drive East Chanhassen, MN 55317

Tuesday, March 23, 12-2pm 20 slots
Thursday, March 25, 8-9:30pm 20 slots

We are anticipating all slots will fill quickly, so please contact Amy acytron@nechama.org to secure your spot today. Please let us which date and time you want.
Thank you for being part of the NECHAMA team!

RESPONSE TO EARTHQUATE IN HAITI

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

NECHAMA grieves for the loss of life and the injuries suffered by the people of Haiti as a result of yesterday’s severe earthquake. Given the enormity of the disaster, the extreme disruption of communications and damage to the infrastructure, the situation is very fluid. We are working with national disaster response organizations in order to assess whether NECHAMA can play an meaningful role in the recovery. A number of national Jewish organizations have or will open mailboxes to which monetary contributions can be made. As soon as we have gathered all of those mailbox addresses, we will post them on our “Happening Now” page. We will keep you informed of further developments. Here are our partner agencies who have avenues to donate to the relief efforts.

Union for Reform Judaism:

American Jewish World Service:

Joint Distribution Committee / Jewish Coalition for Disaster Response:

United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism: