Jewish seniors are going hungry. You can change that.
An SOS is an urgent call for help. The time for us to send one is now. More than 1,000 vulnerable seniors, including Holocaust survivors, in the Toronto Jewish community are going hungry. For the past four years, we’ve been able to help feed them through our kosher Meals on Wheels program. But our funding is running out. We need you to respond to our SOS. Help us support our seniors.
Hunger and food insecurity is a crisis in Toronto, including in our Jewish community. Many of us face sticker shock at the price of food these days; imagine what it is like for seniors with little or no income.
In 2020, the Bernard Betel Centre began providing free, culturally appropriate kosher Meals on Wheels to 620 seniors and Holocaust survivors. There are an additional 450 seniors on our growing waitlist for this essential program. All of these seniors live in poverty. Without our Meals on Wheels program, they might go days without eating.
The Bernard Betel Centre can’t support these seniors alone. We need your help.
You can make a difference in a senior’s life by heeding our SOS and joining our fight against hunger.
With your commitment, you can provide critical, lifesaving funds to help feed one, or more, seniors through our kosher Meals on Wheels program.
- $1,100 will feed one senior three meals per week for six months.
- $2,200 will feed one senior three meals per week for one year.
- $4,400 will feed one senior couple three meals per week for one year.
- $11,000 will feed five seniors three meals per week for one year.
- $22,000 will feed ten seniors three meals per week for one year.
- $44,000 will feed 20 seniors three meals per week for one year.
- $110,000 will feed 50 seniors three meals per week for one year.
Please donate to help ensure these Jewish seniors do not go hungry.
For more information about our SOS program, contact Gail Gould at gailg@betelcentre.org, 416-225-2112, ext. 129 or Katie Mohr at katiem@betelcentre.org, 416-225-2112, ext. 126.