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Jewish Children's Regional Service
(formerly the Jewish Children's Home)
Serving Jewish Children in:
ALABAMA - ARKANSAS - LOUISIANA - MISSISSIPPI - OKLAHOMA - TENNESSEE - TEXAS

[Under Construction]


FUNDING

 UPDATE TO 2005 HOLIDAY GIFT/CARD PROGRAM
of THE JEWISH CHILDREN’S REGIONAL SERVICE

 

Hanukkah gift sets and greeting cards were shipped or distributed to 300 Jewish youth and 30 state hospital residents. Each gift set contained 10-12 small, wrapped gifts.
Many of the neediest youth, and many affected by the storms, also received department store gift cards.
The JCRS also provided boxes of gifts to New Orleans Jewish youth, which were distributed at two different community Hanukkah parties
in Greater New Orleans.
A special interfaith grant permitted the JCRS to create 375 Christmas gift sets (10-12 small gifts) for evacuee youth in New Orleans, Beaumont, Lake Charles and Houston. Clothing and gifts are continuing to be distributed in Houston by the JCRS and distribution will resume soon in New Orleans.
Hundreds of volunteers in Houston, representing many Jewish and secular groups, wrapped approximately 5,000 of the 7,000 gifts that were purchased or donated before the holiday season.
Many of the gift cards, and some of the gifts distributed by the JCRS were donated by groups and individuals from across the United States.
Jewish students in Houston and across the South, created over 1,000 greeting cards, which not only accompanied the gifts, but were also sent to Jewish residents of nursing homes, or senior day program participants, in Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Tulsa, San Antonio, Memphis and El Paso.

Cash contributions to support this program 
are accepted throughout the year.*
 

* Shipments of toys and gifts are not easily accepted, due to shipping and storage challenges.

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