Several of TI’s Project Hope volunteers are pictured with the bags they set out to deliver. (Photo by Leon Green)
About a dozen members of Tikvat Israel delivered full bags of Passover food and drink supplies to those in need in Montgomery Community as part of the Jewish Social Service Agency’s annual Project Hope on Sunday (April 17).
The volunteers, coordinated by Moira and Leon Green, were Muriel Asher, Bobbi Cohen, Karen Cohen, Ellen Eisner, Jay Goldman, Phil and Hope Kott, and the Hardy, Leibowitz, Loving and Werner families. “It was wonderful seeing the young children helping out,” said Moira Green, who served as TI’s coordinator.
Project Hope delivered the holiday supplies to about 500 households in the area.
Project Hope – Help Our People Everywhere – is a community action project whose major goal is the collection and distribution of food packages to poor and elderly Jews during Passover. Many Jews who cannot afford special holiday foods depend on B’nai B’rith members to provide matzoh and the other Passover staples. Volunteers assemble and deliver the packages. This program began in New York and has spread to Boston, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
