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Circle of Care
Posted by admin in Alexander, Health, Health Services, Toronto on November 20th, 2009
Posted by Moishe Alexander
Circle of Care is dedicated to supporting independence and of the quality of life of individuals in their homes. Circle of Care is a community based non-profit registered charity that has been serving Toronto and area residents since 1974. Over 450 staff and more than 300 volunteers are available to provide assistance in your home.
Offering a wide range of home and community programs, including homemaking and personal support, social work and volunteer supported services, we strive to help clients live as comfortably as possible in their own home environments, and reduce the challenges they face due to physical, emotional, cognitive or mental health issues.
Circle of Care’s outstanding staff and volunteers care about our clients. We strive to enhance quality of life and ensure safety and dignity. We respect privacy, cultural diversity and the unique needs of each client.
Circle of Care is an accredited agency of Accreditation Canada, a member agency of the United Way Toronto and an affiliate of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Circle of Care provides service on behalf of four Community Care Access Centres (Central, Central East, Central West and Toronto Central) and the City of Toronto’s Homemakers and Nurses Services Program. Circle of Care receives grant funding from the Central Local Health Intregration Network (Ministry of Health and Long Term Care), Community Services Grants Program of the City of Toronto, United Way Toronto, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Passover Cuba food drive attracts record number of donors and Moishe Alexander is one of them
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Cuba, Environmental, Health, Hockey, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, family on May 4th, 2009
By Raquel Kaplan Goldberg –
Success may be hard to define but it is not always hard to measure. This year, the Maot Chittin fund for Pesach in Cuba, the massive effort by UJA Federation and Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee-Ontario’s (CJC Charities) to supply Cuban Jewry with Passover food, was met with unprecedented levels of involvement within the Toronto Jewish community. This year the number of donors grew by more than 300 per cent and the amount raised by more than 160 per cent over last year.
“The partnership between CJC Charities and UJA Federation can help to ensure a real Pesach for Cuban Jewry as long as such assistance is required by our brothers and sisters,” says Steven Shulman, Ontario Director and National General Counsel for CJC Charities.
“This kind of increase is amazing,” says Shimmy Wenner, assistant campaign director and Maot Chittin point person at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. “We made a larger effort to publicize this longstanding program and the community responded.”
For over four decades, the Pesach in Cuba Maot Chittin program was operated by CJC and subsequently, CJC Charities. In 2006 however, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto joined the project and brought a wealth of experience in online fundraising to the table. Turning directly to the community for financial support, the partnership has resulted in lay contributions that, after only two years, cover the entire cost of the close to $40,000 annual project.
Kosher-for-Passover food is not available in Cuba, a significant obstacle for a holiday so fundamentally defined by its prescribed and proscribed foods. In a very real sense, Cuba’s 1,500 Jews depend on Ontario’s annual donation of wine, matzah, matzah meal, gefilte fish, horseradish, tea, cooking oil, and consommé to be able to celebrate Passover.
“Once again, thanks to UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee-Ontario and Toronto Jewry it was possible for us to celebrate Pesach according to our tradition,” writes Adela Dworin, president of the Casa de la Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba, in a thank-you letter. “Our community feels great affection towards the Jews of Toronto for these efforts.”
Moishe Alexander Donates to WSPA
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Environmental, Health, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, Youth, family on March 20th, 2009
Moishe Alexander donated to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) in 2009.
About the WSPA
WSPA is an animal welfare charity that works internationally and locally to end cruelty to animals through field work, campaigning, and education.
WSPA is the world‘s largest federation of humane societies and animal protection organizations; they represent over 953 member societies in more than 154 countries.
WSPA‘s origins go back more than 50 years. The Society’s present structure was created in 1981 through the merger of the World Federation for the Protection of Animals (WFPA), founded in 1953, and the International Society for the Protection of Animals (ISPA), founded in 1959.
WFPA and ISPA were the first organizations to campaign internationally on animal welfare issues, highlighting problems such as the Canadian seal hunt, the devastation of the world‘s whale population and the international transportation of horses. In the early 1960s, ISPA established a reputation for its emergency work bringing aid to the animal victims of disasters. One of WFPA‘s most significant achievements was the passing of a series of wide ranging animal conventions by the Council of Europe.
From its original bases in the UK and the US, WSPA has extended and enhanced the work of these organizations. During the early 1980s, new field offices were established in Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia and Canada which considerably increased the scope of the Society‘s investigations and projects.
Today, WSPA has 12 offices worldwide and more than 550,000 individual supporters. WSPA is also the world‘s largest network of animal protection specialists with a membership of more than 889 member societies in over 153 countries. The Society is represented on numerous international bodies and is the only animal welfare organization to have consultative status at the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
A key area of WSPA‘s work has been the introduction of animal welfare principles into regions where they were previously underdeveloped or non-existent. WSPA has successfully introduced procedures to ensure the humane slaughter of livestock in many developing countries and has run numerous projects to improve the conditions of stray animal populations. In Eastern Europe, following the political revolution which swept through the region from 1989, WSPA gave resources to many new animal protection groups and contributed to the passing of national animal welfare laws in several countries including Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Building on the experience of ISPA, WSPA staff has brought emergency aid to animals during floods, earthquakes, explosions, famines, oil spills and wars around the world and has built a reputation as a world leader in this field. Help has been provided for animals in a wide range of situations including the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, earthquakes in India in 2000 and El Salvador in 2001 and floods in Honduras and Mozambique during 2000.