CAN project - Alex Relief / ‘Unsung heroes’

A chance communication with a domestic employee brought home to a Jewish community member in Johannesburg the desperate plight facing people who are not being paid during the lockdown period. Determined to do something about this the member (who wishes to remain anonymous) got in touch with SAJBD Chairman Shaun Zagnoev and was referred by him to the Angel Network. This organisation, a social upliftment initiative founded and run by a dedicated group of Jewish women, has been doing extraordinary work over the past few months, and particularly during the current Covid-19 crisis.

Through two substantial donations from the community members concerned the Angel Network and Yehuda Lazarus from Fingertips of Africa distributed the food parcels in Alex. Each parcel is sufficient to feed a family of four for two weeks.

The Alex project is one of many critical relief efforts that Jewish community members have been involved in since the lockdown was imposed, and is further representative of countless similar initiatives, great and small, that South Africans across the board have launched in response to the crisis. To all those who contributed to this inspiring undertaking, thank-you and well done.