How is Meir Panim Fighting The Battle Against Poverty in Israel?

• More than 2,000 hungry people are served a hot nourishing meal daily at one of Meir Panim’s 9 free restaurant (soup kitchens) locations throughout Israel
• 140,000 hot lunches are served to hungry school children
• 1,700 Meals-On-Wheels are delivered daily to the elderly and handicapped
• Thousands of food packages and 12,000 food shopping cards are delivered annually to the homebound and elderly, including Holocaust survivors and new immigrants
• 8 warehouses provided donated furniture, equipment & clothes to 12,000 families
• 5,000 winter kits are distributed annually to disadvantaged Israelis through Power of Giving Warehouses
• 1,200 disadvantaged children attended summer camp last year
• 300 children attend after-school youth clubs
• 90 women and 60 youth at-risk are enrolled annually in vocational training programmes

30,000 meals will be distributed throughout Israel daily to the needy at the Mortimer Zuckerman and Abigail Zuckerman Israel Nutrition Centre—the largest food production facility in Israel.  To be completed ASAP.

For more information, please contact:
Gabriel Blauer, Executive Director of UK Branch of Meir Panim.
UK Branch of Meir Panim, 58 Longfield Ave. NW7 2EG, London.
Tel: 020 82027508 or 07985 511 475, gaby.blauer@meirpanimuk.org