Category Archives: Shelter

Love to Langa

Love to Langa 125 Birkdale Drive, Blue Bell, PA 19422 Contact: Amy Ostroff, President 610 608-9347 lovetolanga@gmail.com Love to Langa supports the work of Siyaphambili Orphanage Village, which was founded in 2005 by Ndileka Xameni. Formerly a social worker, she reponded to the growing number of young children orphaned by parents with HIV/AIDS. The orphanage currently serves 250 orphaned and vulnerable children, including 85 grandparents, 35 Child-headed households and 25 teen mothers. The charity is new and needs funds in order to purchase land and building materials. Mitzvah projects may also include: Raise $310 to provide $10 gift cards to […]

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HIAS

HIAS 2100 Arch St # 3 Philadelphia, PA 19103-1300 Contact: Sarah Peterson, Director of Development & Refugee Program Manager; Tamara Cohen, Social Justice Rabbinic Intern speterson@hiaspa.org; tcohen@hiaspa.org 215-832-0900 HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia (“HIAS and Council”) was founded nearly 130 years ago to help Jewish immigrants and refugees fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity in America. Based on the tradition of “welcoming the stranger” and tikkun olam, HIAS and Council works to represent, resettle, and reunite Jewish and all immigrants and refugees of limited means residing in Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley. Over the past 128 years, HIAS has […]

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The Joy of Sox

The Joy of Sox 580 Lindsay Drive, Radnor, PA 19087 Contact: Tom Costello Jr., Chief Sock Person 610 745-1075 tom@thejoyofsox.org The Joy of Sox mission is to supply socks to the homeless. We need community involvement in collecting new socks for the homeless. This could be run out of a school, synagogue or office. For a mitzvah project, volunteers may also fundraise to purchase new socks, help package socks as a community service project and then deliver them to a homeless shelter or soup kitchen.

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