Ahavas Chesed, a medical assistance and humanitarion organization, is asking the community to help a Jewish family whose home completely burned in a fire.
The family of 8 children – ages 12 and under – was rushed out of their apartment at 621 Crown Street this past Shabbos after a fire broke out from a broken electric circuit.
An appeal sent to the community said: “This family now has nowhere to call home, and nothing to call their own. Baruch HaShem, no one was hurt in the blaze, but their apartment is gone. Their clothes are gone. Even their school supplies and toys are gone.”
Ahavas Chesed director Rabbi Avraham Lider told COLlive.com: “When I picked them up they had only shoes. I put them in a hotel in Borough Park, sponsored for only two days by the Red Cross. Now they are in a basement.
The father has a serious heart condition and can’t work. He is from Israel and his wife is from Argentina. They have been living in Crown Heights for the past five years.
Money is urgently needed to obtain and furnish a new apartment and to replace what was destroyed in the fire. “Please open your hearts and help this family reestablish their home,” Lider asks. “Also tuition has to be paid.”
Tax-deductible donations can be sent to:
AHAVAS CHESED
FIRE FUND
720 Lefferts Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203
To contribute via credit card, or if you would like to provide clothing, furniture or other necessities, please call: 718-221-2424
paypal. if you cant find away to send money. if you dont get a response, you can send it to my account and ill have R leider call to confirm its arrival.
i would also liek to know if there is paypal? i will jeep checking thsi site for any update if you provide a paypal address
There is no room for this kind of rhetoric here, while a family has los everything they had and the place they called home!!! maybe the little they had was just enough to get them by??
do you theally think that it is easy to deal with losing everything you got in a fire?? we i know first hand that even with money this is hard!!
so if you dont want to help thats between you and your creator, but don’t ask such stupid questions
For international donations is there paypal etc?
in response to comment 1, they struggled even before the fire to make rent payment and provide clothe for the all eight childrens. since the father is unable to work because of his illness.
I hope people will help them. poor kids, uprooted from their home.
a day before the fire, how did they get clothes, food, pay for rent?