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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 is a proud supporter of Israel
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Environmental, Health, Hockey, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, family on May 4th, 2009
Where Money Goes
There is no more powerful expression of solidarity with the people of Israel than showing them how much we care by walking in support of our Jewish homeland.
Highlighted by groundbreaking partnerships with Israeli philanthropists, communities and volunteer organizations, monies raised from the Walk with Israel will be allocated through UIA Federations Canada, to educational and social welfare initiatives that strengthen vulnerable communities, such as those in northern Israel and Sderot.
Funds raised will help enable UJA to support effective, life-changing educational and social supports for Bat Yam’s Ethiopian-Israeli community to integrate them into mainstream Israeli society. We will also continue to support successful social and educational initiatives in Eilat/Eilot, Toronto’s partner community – enhancing opportunities and transforming the region.
On behalf of the residents of Israel, United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto thanks you.