Archives for 2015

The new machines are up and running! We’ve got three now (shipped to us from Singapore this week) and are excited to scale our impact and produce more soap. We’ve also added a few extra tables, a drying rack and some used furniture (chairs mostly) using your funds. And a fresh coat of paint! I […]

We met Hannah Tomaskovic and her Mom last winter at the Barnert Memorial Temple (NJ) Mitzvah Mall when they stopped by to learn more about our work and to discuss ways she could make her upcoming Bat Mitzvah project meaningful.  As you can read in the letter posted here, our conversation with Hannah led to […]

Awaad is a 25 year old Eritrean residing in Israel for the past 4+ years. It was not his intention to come to Israel but circumstances were such that this is where he ended up. Awaad left his homeland at the age of 17 to avoid the draft (which is essentially a lifetime of slavery […]

In our house strawberries and cherries are the preferred snack now that the “season” has really kicked in. Apparently the season is in full swing out in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, an area filled with farms and backyard fruit trees. Elise Bauman, the about-to-be first paid employee of our newest grantee, Salem Harvest, sent us these […]

Sometimes a request comes to us that might be considered extravagant or unnecessary but we know that often, what could be considered “extravagant” is often exactly the right response to a difficult and harsh set of circumstances. When our grantee, Fraidy Reiss, from Unchained at Last, shared her wish to take many of her clients […]