(excerpt from Ori Belmont’s report on homeless outreach services excursion with teams from the Toronto Doctors Lions Club). Cooking a meal that is healthy and high in nutritional value for one’s self provides sustenance – but only for one.  Doing the same for someone that you know well brings great joy and pleasure in knowing [...]

We ask our volunteers from the Mobile Jewish Response to the Homeless (MJRH) van to share their experiences with us. The questions are designed to help focus their thoughts and feeling about their time on the van. Q: What brought you to seek out this particular experience? Living in the suburbs, I often feel disconnected [...]

This week I want to tell you about a remarkable man. He is extremely intelligent, and remarkably evolved. He is one of our clients, and he lives in a park. His name is Sid. For the longest time, Sid would only have brief interaction with me. Then, about 6 months into my employment with Ve’ahavta, [...]

Some touching things happened this week that reminded me that our program and my participation in it have a real impact on the people we serve. I now stop at a rent geared to income residence, where there live a few people I have known since they lived on the street. This week, there ware [...]

Hi Everyone, Today I handed out three baskets to fathers I knew, and then drove the rest to two drop ins where Nir and I handed them out. One was the good neighbors club, a drop in for men over 50. The other was the Salvation Army on Jarvis south of Richmond. In the latter [...]