Want to know us better? This is the first in a series giving specifics of how AHI uses your gifts and donations and volunteer time to accomplish our work. Below are logistics and costs. This newsletter issue presents a portion of the actual work with the Holocaust Survivors. More next month!
Please consider if God would have you cover either the full or partial costs for one of these
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Auvia, translator, visits Alexy in the elderly house, along with his wife Zina
needs on a monthly or yearly basis.
Visiting Survivors – Monthly costs
Translator: $2,100/month
- A desperate need; depending on skill level, average $15/hour or higher; 35 hours/week
Transportation: $1500/month
- Taxi within city, $4.5-$6 /ride
- Taxi to hospital or other city, $60 roundtrip
- Bus per person, $2-$30 /ride depending on destination
- Train per person $5-$30 one way depending on destination
- Van, depending on distance- $120/full tank (gas here is $8.00/gallon)
- Van, rental and insurance – $970/month
- Walking, also called ‘Bus 11’, is free!
Birthday Flowers: $1200/month
- Cost per bouquet, $10.00 each
- See cost of transportation for pick up at flower shop and delivery
- Flowers currently are given in 3 cities; lack of volunteers are needed to expand delivery
Birthday flowers!
to more cities
- One city has delivery from the flower shop at an additional cost of $2/each
Birthday Cards: $200/month
- Currently mailing Birthday and Anniversary cards to approximately 1200 Survivors
- Cost of cards is equivalent to cost of ink, paper and envelopes. Custom made cards by staff in Israel includes all the languages we serve. Approximately 50 cents each
- Russian cards for 2018 have been supplied by a volunteer.
- Postage for average 100 cards/month-$75
- Prepare cards, maintain list of 1200 names, spreadsheet and address labels, in 20 cities, process cards returned due to moving and death, timely delivery- cost in time is priceless.
Events: $2000/month
- Concerts, free music by volunteers; sometimes we must pay musicians; free in-home music for Survivors not able to leave their homes
- Marketplace, games, performances, Annual Sukkot BBQ for Survivors
- International Women’s Day flower give away
- Veterans candy giveaway
- Door prizes, gifts for special occasions
- Refreshments for all events
Home Renovations: $2500/month
- Evaluate Survivor homes for repairs, painting, renewal, etc
- Replace and renovate where needed
- Past renovations include new kitchens, new bathtub, shower, sink or toilet, wall repair, plumbing and electrical, appliances
Survivor Personal Needs: $2300/month
- Megavoice- Old Testament or Psalms/Proverbs on a solar battery audible unit, in their language, to provide Tanach for the Survivors who have difficulty reading – $45/each
- Hired 1 cleaning woman to clean apartments once a month for Survivors who are alone and need help- $500/mo
- Medical equipment such as canes, walkers or wheelchairs – provided through organizations in Israel plus our funding
- Chair Assist, electric powered, to help Survivor to stand- provided by an Adoptive family; we transport to Survivors in need
- Quilts, handmade, for our Heirloom Project, to help them begin again the heritage of giving handmade quilts to children and grandchildren. Cost of shipping $50/each
- Eyeglasses, prescription – Avg $500/each
- Eyeglass clinics, giving glasses for reading or distance – donation to sponsors by AHI, free for Survivors
- Volunteers to do errands, grocery shopping, cleaning
Next month we will present the logistics and cost of another aspect of AHI!