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Moishe Alexander is a Proud supporter of WSPA
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Environmental, Health, Hockey, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, family on May 4th, 2009
About WSPA:
WSPA’s vision is of a world where animal welfare matters, and animal cruelty ends.
WSPA has been promoting animal welfare for more than 25 years. Our work is concentrated in regions of the world where few, if any, measures exist to protect animals.
WSPA’s work is focused on four priority animal welfare areas:
- Companion animals – responsible pet ownership, humane stray management and cruelty prevention.
- Commercial exploitation of wildlife – intensive farming and the cruel management and killing of wild animals for food or by-products.
- Farm animals – intensive farming, long distance transport and slaughter of animals for food.
- Disaster management – providing care to animals suffering as a result of man-made or natural disasters, and thereby protecting people’s livelihoods.
Our mission: to build a united global animal welfare movement.
With consultative status at the United Nations and the Council of Europe, WSPA is the world‘s largest alliance of animal welfare societies.
We are proud to be part of this growing network, with more than 900 member organizations in over 150 countries.
WSPA brings together people and organizations throughout the world to challenge global animal welfare issues.
WSPA has 15 offices and hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide.
Realizing our aims
Politically, we have campaigned to convince governments and key decision makers to change practices and introduce new laws to protect or improve the welfare of animals.
With generous donations from our supporters, WSPA has helped people set up new animal welfare groups, enabling local communities globally to help drive improvements in animal welfare.
Understanding that human ignorance is a major factor in the continuation of animal cruelty, WSPA’s education programs facilitate a positive change in people’s attitudes towards animals.
Our field and disaster management teams provide direct help to animals that have been abandoned, neglected or caught up in natural or man-made disasters all over the globe.
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.”