Fourth Annual Drive-Through Sukkah for Refugees

September 2023

Volunteers and donors are needed to help with this year’s Sharing Our Harvest With Refugees, Sukkot 2023, better known as JCRI’s Drive-Through Sukkah for Refugees.

The Jewish Community Refugee Initiative (JCRI) is once again partnering with Refugee Support Services (RSS) for this event. JCRI will help 75 refugee families during this most recent surge of both Covid and grocery food prices by delivering bags of food and kitchen supplies to RSS.

To prepare, volunteers will be boxing food and kitchen items at Shalom Park under the Poliakoff Athletic Pavilion on Tuesday Oct. 3rd from noon -1:30 p.m. It will be outside, assembly-line fashion, and we will be spaced apart, but some of us will no doubt be wearing masks.

Delivery of the 75 totes will be early the following morning, Wednesday October 4th at RSS’s location on the grounds of Aldersgate, 3925 Willard Farrow Drive.

We need volunteers to work the assembly line putting items in the totes, to serve as buyers, and to help with delivery of the filled totes to RSS.

A final request is for funds for this project. We need to raise ~$700 to purchase the food and kitchen supplies. If you are interested in making a monetary donation, please send a check payable to Temple Beth El( our fiduciary agent) with JCRI in the memo line.

Thank you in advance for putting this event on your calendar. To register as a volunteer please contact Amy Lefkof at lefkofamy@gmail. com