Sitting in a nursing home, alone with
her childhood memories of holiday
celebrations, she waits for company.
And waits.

additional
critical needs

■ More support will reduce the wait for
transportation services and in-home care
for the growing number of elderly people
living in their own homes throughout our
Jewish community.

■ Eighty per cent of Israel's 75,000 Ethiopian
Jews live in poverty; after-school centers
would tutor 2,500 Ethiopian children who
need special help.

■ The Joint Distribution Committee needs
additional resources to relieve hunger
among the growing number of poor
elderly in the former Soviet
Union.

the vulnerable

ElderLink

Jewish Apartments and Services

Hebrew Free Loan Association

Jewish Home and Aging Services

Jewish Agency for Israel

Jewish Vocational Service

Jewish Family Service

Joint Distribution Committee

Federation's Annual
Campaign, we sustain a global

Through

lifeline to the aged, to the disabled
and the troubled.

■ Detroit's Jewish Home and Aging Services
and Jewish Vocational Service are providing
adult day care to 43 older adults with
Alzheimer's disease and other dementia
disorders.

■ With Campaign support, Joint Distribution
Committee-sponsored Hesed senior citizen
centers provide meals, medical services and
in-home care to the 190,000 most needy in
the former Soviet Union.

■ Here at home, Jewish Family

Service social workers enable more
than 450 individuals to deal with
serious personal problems, among
them drugs and alcohol, gambling
and domestic abuse.

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• Five hundred at-risk children —
most of them new immigrants —
thrive at youth villages run by the
Jewish Agency for Israel.

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