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BEIT
FRANKFORTER
Ms.
Sima Zini, Director
80 Beit Lechem Road
P O B 10074
Jerusalem 91100 ISRAEL
Fax 011-972-2-672-5395
Beit
Frankforter does impressive good works for the elderly
including social activities, inter-generation programs,
health care, visits to the ill, handicrafts, and language
classes to name only a few. It has a web site at http://frankforter.hypermart.net/index.htm
which you may want to visit. Myriam’s Dream
is supporting a teacher for computer classes for the
elderly and handicapped to enhance fine motor, eye-hand
coordination and their memory abilities. Quickly noticed
is that use of the internet and e-mail helps bridge
the generation gap between the elderly and their children
and grandchildren. Our grant also includes funds for
an instructor to create quality gifts with the elderly
participants, such as baby sweaters and hats, aprons,
quilts, and artisan crafts.
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MYRIAM’S
DREAM BOOKBINDERY
1102 Atlantic
Avenue
Atlantic City NJ 08401
Telephone: 609-345-3350
Officially
opened in its new Atlantic City location in February,
1999, the Myriam’s Dream bookbindery trains
elders in the skilled craft of repairing and rebinding
books. As Myriam once commented, “The young
tear; the old repair.” The quality of the elders’
work is excellent: complete, precise and creative.
Numerous schoolchildren come to visit and see the
skilled elderly at work. This year the Bookbindery
re-bound more than 2,500 books for schools, synagogues,
and individuals, including some large print dictionaries
for elders with visual impairment. Myriam’s
Dream continues to support the Bookbindery’s
community service by funding much-needed bindery supplies
and training expenses.
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AM
ECHAD
http://www.amechad.net/
With its focus in the FSU primarily in St. Petersburg,
Russia. Am Echad has aided 103 recipients this past
year via volunteers who visited over 300 people. MYRIAM'S
DREAM grant is to help over 100 elderly and bedridden
clients still on the "Waiting List" for
the bare necessities of food, medicine, clothing and
warmth (both calorific and personal)
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CAPE
JEWISH SENIORS ASSOCIATION
Attention:
Ms. Lorraine Mann
7 Bellevue Road
Sea Point 8001
Cape Town South Africa
Telephone: 434-9691
Many
Jewish seniors remain in South Africa while their
children live abroad; the result is a great sense
of loss for all parties concerned. The current realities
facing vulnerable aged members of this community,
many of whom live far away from family and friends,
and are often home-bound, require the need for supportive
services. The focus of aid from Myriam’s Dream
will be a social worker for the isolated home-bound
and a Social Worker to reach all elderly and families
of the Cape Town community.
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CLICKE
Community
Leadership & Intervention of Crisis
for Kids and Elderly
Attention:Linda
Mosek Director
P.O. Box 6337
Hod Hasharon 45241
ISRAEL
Telephone: 972-9-7414974
Fax: 972-9-7414974
E-mail: linda@roshhelp.co.il
Operating
since 1997, Click operates four centers for the aged
in different neighborhoods and a day care center for
the disabled elderly. The Myriam’s Dream grant
this year will support a CLICK neighborhood outreach
social worker whose duties will include supervising
and recruiting the essential corps of volunteers,
creating outreach programs for the home-bound, and
continuing and developing community intergenerational
projects. One of the most amazing results of the intergenerational
program is the partnership and reciprocal relationship
that developed between children and elderly in the
community. For example, the elderly cook a hot lunch
one day a week for the children in the respite care
program.” The Director noted the changed attitude
toward the elderly by the youth and the “improved
feeling of self-worth” which the elderly realized.
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EILAT,
ISRAEL
Attention: Ms. Norma Gaines
Little Wonders Hot Lunches
P.O. Box 1081, 88110 Eilat, Israel
E-mail: paula@eilatcity.co.il
Many
new immigrant grandparents in poor families primarily
from Ethiopia, are babysitting for their grandchildren.
Except for feeding the babies, these grandparents
know little about games, exercises, nutrition, etc.
“Little Wonders” for grandparents and
little ones, a new program to provide “grandparent
education in child care,” will be funded by
Myriam’s Dream. This generation-to-generation
project will enrich the health and lives of the grandparents
as well as the babies.
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YAAKOV
MAIMON VOLUNTEERS, ISRAEL
Contact: Joel Dorkam
Kibbutz Palmach Tsuba, D.N. Harei Jehuda 90870 Israel
Tel: 02-347871 Fax: 02-347955
More
new Olim keep arriving at Mevasseret-Zion absorption
center and caravan camps on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Myriam’s Dream was requested to increase our
support of activities there, particularly among the
elderly Olim. Teaching Hebrew and the routines and
customs of the immigrants’ new homeland of Israel
have become important immigration services from this
all-volunteer group.
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L’VUV,
UKRAINE
We
are told that most of these elders are survivors of
WW2 -- single people, invalids and people with terrible
chronic diseases Last year this volunteer group nursed
8 people and gave out to 119 Jewish people 1309 medicines.
They write that they “are constantly in debts
and your help is very very important. We often become
the last point for the needy Jews to get help which
no one else can do.” Myriam’s Dream grant
will be used to give medicines, food essentials and
health care to the home-bound elderly.
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ACTION
FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY
Active
in 42 communities in the Ukraine, three in Belarus,
and one in Moldova, APSJ is a major contributor of
life's basic necessities, particularly medical aid
and food. It has recently improved the seniors' handicraft
program. "This is really an outgrowth of the
original suggestion we had from Myriam's Dream to
develop handiwork to benefit our clients," recently
wrote its Executive Director.
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MATE
YEHUDA DAY CENTRE FOR ELDERLY, ISRAEL
Attention:
Ruth Yanay or Yuhudit Katz
c/o Mate Yehuda Regional Council
P O Box 6835
Jerusalem 94467 Israel
Fax: 011-972-2-9900-902
Mate
Yehuda has fine examples of top-notch intergenerational
and intercommunity activities (e.g.: Abu Gosh high
school). Myriam’s Dream funded the newly developed
enabling garden for senior gardeners who use wheelchairs
or braces. This year Myriam’s Dream will aid
youths who will be working with the elderly on ceramics,
silk painting, candle making, weaving, and traditional
baking. New this year will be an attempt to grow Biblical
plants to dovetail with group discussions about Biblical
vegetation, both regarding their uses and their place
in literature.
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MYRIAM'S
DREAM, INC. is a not-for-profit tax deductible organization
founded by a national group of dedicated volunteers
vitally interested in helping older people through
work and programs in Israel and around the world.
We were founded as and continue to be an ALL VOLUNTEER
organization. There are no administrative, facilities,
or staff costs.
