JCD widens funding strategy
JCD is widening its funding strategy by including countries in the Former Soviet Union.
First to benefit from this new policy is the Ukraine, where £5,000 was handed over to Camp Ramah Yachad in Kiev and £3,000 to the Regional Welfare Fund in Kharkov by JCD executive director Daniel Burger who was on a fact-finding trip to the region last week.
Camp Ramah Yachad, which is in its fifteenth year, runs camps for children and adults, while the funding offered to the Kharkov community will help with the cost of purchasing equipment for a rehabilitation centre for children with physical difficulties and restricted movement.
Burger, who also visited the cities of Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rog and Dnipropetrovsk, said: “We have recently undertaken a strategic review of our funding and I wanted to see for myself the Jewish community in the Ukraine, where there around 450,000 Jews.
“It’s almost a case of role reversal with the children educating their parents in matters of Judaism, which is on a real upward curve.
“We are always looking for new sources for our funding and the FSU is one area we have identified, but it will not mean any lessening of our support for needy causes in the United Kingdom and Israel.”
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