UJW looks back on another year of sterling service

OWN CORRESPONDENT

These include Kosher Mobile Meals, the House and Garden Circle, the Adult Education Programme, Brain Boost Stimulation Group, the Sewing School, the Granny-Headed Households Feeding Scheme, Alexandra Aftercare and other feeding schemes.

Kree thanked volunteers and donors whose involvement and generosity again enabled the UJW to succeed in all its projects and functions.

The UJW’s upcoming events and projects were mentioned, with Kree making specific mention of the upcoming Mandela Day project which will be launched as a long-term project. Then there is “Bags for New Beginnings” and she also announced that the UJW’s fundraiser for the following year will be the award-winning musical, “The Colour Purple”, to be held in February next year.

Kree reflected on the importance and the value of volunteers to the organisation and how the work done by the UJW could not have been completed without the commitment and dedication of each volunteer.

Miriam Isaacs received the Volunteer of the Year award for her commitment and dedication to the UJW Alexandra Aftercare.

Guest speaker Tali Nates spoke about “Remembering the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide”. She stressed the importance of learning about the past in order to stop history from repeating itself, something that everyone should do, but which was always accompanied by its own challenges.

Nates also spoke on the newly-opened Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre in Parktown and extended an invitation to all those present to visit the centre, although it had not yet had its official opening.