What is SOS? It’s hearing the call for help from our own community.
SOS (Support Our Struggling) is feeling a parent’s anguish knowing their child needs rehab.
SOS is being there for a lonely teenager who has no home, no money and nowhere to go.
Support Our Struggling is there for a child who desperately needs an overnight camp experience, but whose parents cannot afford it.
Right now, these are people’s reality. This summer, some families in Crown Heights require immediate and critical assistance. They are facing challenges that call for our collective action and compassion.
For over three decades, Chevras Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov (CSSY) has been a pillar of support for the Crown Heights community. Founded to provide food for Shabbos and Yom Tov meals, CSSY has become a lifeline for those in need. Today, when families face crises, they know they can turn to CSSY for a helping hand. These urgent cases are dealt with by CSSY on the recommendation of Rabbonim, mashpi’im or when they involve families CSSY help regularly.
Among these families, some parents are desperate to send their children to rehab, seeking to save their child’s life. Can we stand by and allow their cries for help to go unnoticed?
There are couples whose marriages and family lives hang in the balance. They need crisis intervention, therapy, and counseling. Shall we turn away from their heartfelt pleas?
In this past month, CSSY has provided two bar mitzvah boys with tefillin, facilitated residential rehab for three teenagers, paid for nine camp scholarships, paid the rent for two teenagers who unfortunately cannot live at home, assisted two families that required special schools with expensive tuition and counselling, and so much more.
CSSY is launching the SOS – Support Our Struggling Campaign to raise $150,000 to provide the assistance these families so desperately need. But they cannot do it without your help.
In this time of the Nine Days, let’s join together B’achdus as a community. Today, support our own in their time of need. Show up with Ahavas Chinam and help families in crisis.
For Benji Stock, this campaign is vital. “Although providing food for Shabbos and Yom Tov is our primary focus, we cannot ignore those in our community who so desperately need our help. In their most vulnerable moments, they have reached out to CSSY, and we are doing everything possible to assist. Today we turn to the Crown Heights community and ask them to open their wallets and help a neighbor, a classmate, or a friend who is battling, and needs your help.”
Will you join forces with CSSY to Support Our Struggling? In these final months of Hakhel, let’s unite as a community and support CSSY. Founded at the request of the Rebbe, CSSY is there for our very own here in Crown Heights. Together, we can ensure that our fellow community members are cared for and supported during their most vulnerable moments.
These are not abstract or distant cases. They are our own neighbors and friends who are facing immense challenges.
No matter the amount, each donation helps to transform the life of another yid. May the zechus of our tzedakah transform these days of mourning into days of joy, and may we have no more suffering and pain in our community.
To donate visit www.cssy.org/crisis
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