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Tomchei Shabbas | Community Alert System
TOMCHEI SHABBAS - SHABBAS SUPPORTERS
This is a Shabbas & Yom Tov food distribution center
for people who are in dire financial straits
sign up for a Thursday night delivery of Shabbas &/or Yom Tov foods
To start this in your community
- Seek out a donor who has an unused space even an empty garage will do for a start
- Solicit food donations from Kosher stores, Kosher bakeries & chain stores that carry
kosher food - Solicit monies from community members or hold fund raising events to raise the money to
buy the foods - The minimum goal is to try to obtain foods for Shabbas & Yom Tov
- Other foods that can sustain a family during the week can also be donated
- Publicize the Tomchei Shabbas organization
- Set up a system for people to sign up for deliveries & have
give you a reference either
a Rabbi or friend who will vouch for their circumstances
Everything is anonymous from then onward
- All week long food is delivered to the staging area
- Volunteers organize the foods
- Volunteers arrive at the warehouse or garage at the appointed time around 6pm because by that time of the day more people are available to volunteer
- They team up in groups of 2 - 4 people depending on how many volunteers show up.
- Each group takes care of one list which may have 2, 3 or 4 families on it
- How much of each product the family should get has been determined by the family size
- The volunteers pick up the food products from the stacks in the staging area & place them in the boxes labeled with each family's code name
- A group of volunteer drivers show up & each is given a route of 2, 3 or 4 families.
- The boxes are left on the front porch or in the hallway of an apartment
- The families are expecting the delivery & are usually able to bring it inside their home as soon as the driver leaves
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COMMUNITY ALERT SYSTEM
When there’s a cluster of neighborhoods
or small cities near each other.
it's difficult to find out about
Funerals & Shiva Information in a timely fashion
Even if there is a ‘community’ weekly, bi-weekly or monthly Jewish newspaper
you still need a way to find out this kind of information as soon as it is known
To start this in your community
- You only need one person to volunteer
- They can receive the information by phone or e-mail
- They put the important data onto an e-mail
- The e-mail goes out to the community e-mail list
- The newsletter can grow by adding engagements, births,& announcements about community events but don't let it grow too big or else the volunteer who does it may be overwhelmed
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