The Ichlu Reim Soup Kitchen provides meals and meal-delivery service to the frail elderly, indigent families, individuals suffering from mental disabilities and youth at risk enrolled in rehabilitation programs (through cooperative arrangements with the Jerusalem municipality and local NGOs). All referrals are made by authorized social workers who affirm that their clients are of very limited means (well below the   median income in their communities).

Partnerships  Ichlu Reim benefits from weekly deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables from Leket (nonprofit food "harvester"); Cooperation with municipal authorities and NGOs to provide meal deliveries to elder hostels and programs for at-risk youth; Cooperation with volunteer project of the Israel Defense Forces in which soldiers dedicate a day to prepare and distribute meals and other volunteer tasks; similar cooperation with Taglit-Birthright Israel and other overseas youth and young adult Israel experience programs; cooperation with Israel Prison Authorities to provide work rehabilitation opportunities. The Soup Kitchen utilizes ten kitchen and maintenance workers through the prison authorities; one was offered (and accepted) permanent employment. Every gift you make to the Ichlu Reim Soup Kitchen between March 1 and April 30 2010 will have an even greater impact. The Feinstein Foundation (of Cranston, Rhode Island) has pledged a proportionate matching gift for every donation made to the Ichlu Reim Soup Kitchen from March 1 to April 30, 2010. You can help us meet the Feinstein Challenge—and be part of an extraordinary campaign to alleviate hunger.