Poverty
Alleviating Poverty
We use your support to answer God’s call to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and provide shelter to the poor (Isaiah 58:7) through on-the-ground, lifesaving care, food, and support for impoverished Jews, elderly, and Holocaust survivors.
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My Last Hope
IFCJ Canada | February 8, 2022
Matat wouldn’t be alive if not for Fellowship friends. Quite literally, The Fellowship saved this elderly Jewish widower’s life when he’d lost all hope.
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Love and Care from You
IFCJ Canada | February 1, 2022
For historians of the Holocaust, Vinitsa in Ukraine is a horrifying name. Near the town, Adolf Hitler constructed his eastern retreat, complete with 20 buildings, gardens, a swimming pool, and a wire fence.
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Warming Yuri’s Heart and Home
IFCJ Canada | January 18, 2022
Now in his sixties, Yuri seems both older and younger. Living with a disability since birth, Yuri seems like a young child when he speaks. But when he walks, it’s with the body of a weak, elderly man, as he also faces many physical challenges.
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You Are Her Hope
IFCJ Canada | December 16, 2021
In Russian, her name means “hope.” That’s what 84-year-old Nadezhda tells us. Her mother, a doctor in Russia, named her that after losing her first child.
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A Life of Hardship
IFCJ Canada | November 4, 2021
As 85-year-old Victor volunteers both at a Fellowship-supported soup kitchen, as well as an interpreter for Israel’s courts, those he helps would never know the hard life this gentle man has faced.
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Peaceful Sleep for God’s Children
IFCJ Canada | November 2, 2021
“In peace I will lie down in sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.” (Psalm 4:8)
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Ready to Help
IFCJ Canada | October 21, 2021
Veronica is only in the third grade, but she has already seen what the help of others can do. Her grandmother, Lyudmila, spent her life as a nurse, helping others in their native Ukraine. And because her daughter — Veronica’s mother — is unable to care for her two children, Lyudmila has raised her granddaughters as if they were her own.
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Hand in hand
IFCJ Canada | October 15, 2021
Hand in hand with his beloved grandfather Boris, 7-year-old Ilya once skipped through the melting snow on the way to synagogue in Ukraine.
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Faith and Hope for a Family
IFCJ Canada | October 12, 2021
Life has always been hard for 10-year-old Alina and her 6-year-old brother Vladislav, and faith and hope have often been hard to come by. They once lived in a small dirty apartment in eastern Ukraine, an area mired in war and poverty.
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All That We Have
IFCJ Canada | August 26, 2021
Before the past year and a half, Yamikar’s family lived a simple life. Gathering for simple meals after work at Ben Gurion Airport — where the 43-year-old Ethiopian olim (immigrant) worked in the kitchen and her husband carried luggage — the couple and their six children gave thanks to God for giving them a home in the Holy Land, their biblical and historic homeland, where they can practice their Jewish faith during the High Holy Days and all year round.
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