HAZON YESHAYA'S FOOD PROGRAMS

Hunger never takes a holiday.

With this philosophy, Hazon Yeshaya ensures that its soup kitchen recipients have access to food 365 days of the year. We were the only soup kitchen to remain open during the entire Sukkot holiday, providing all of our regular services including hot meals.  Additionally, we offered the full Sukkot experience to those who might otherwise have gone without.

Food distribution is our flagship program, and through our three central kitchens, we provide over 400,000 hot, nutritious and abundant meals each month to those in need across Israel.

Our meals are delivered to needy adults and children in in schools and afternoon, extended-day enrichment programs, to other organizations that provide humanitarian aid, as well as to the homebound.  Over 70% of our hot, nutritious meals go to children.

We offer a wide variety of healthy and delicious food.  The menus, chosen by our head chef, vary from day to day and from season to season.  A typical Hazon Yeshaya meal consists of chicken, meat or fish, rice or pasta, cooked vegetables, soups, assorted salads, bread, and fruits.

By cooperating closely with social service agencies, we are able to verify that every recipient of our aid is truly in need of our assistance. We also conduct home visits and a personal interview with each applicant and maintain a file on them that is checked and updated every few months.

Thousands of the sick, single-parent families, orphans, terror victims, elderly, Holocaust survivors, victims of abuse, and children count on us for a hot meal every day, their only meal of the day.

Feeding Israel’s Future

Today in Israel, 690,000 children are living below the poverty line. Educators, health care professionals and social workers in Israel are slowly awakening to the reality that thousands of school-age children – nearly one in three – do not have access to a proper supply of nutritional food on a daily basis. As a result, these children are at great risk of improper physical and intellectual development and face a future of continuing poverty and failure.

With no government program to intervene and “rescue” these children, Hazon Yeshaya has stepped forward to take immediate action and make a difference in the lives of these children by providing daily hot lunches.

Children and youth are our greatest priority. That’s why 70% of our efforts are directed towards programs for children.