Posts Tagged ‘Valley’
Dear Friends,
In times of despair and distress, the community is here to respond. In this most difficult economic time, we are turning to you — and you are listening. It is as if you are sitting in our offices, hearing the stories and woes of such unbelievable circumstances that continue to impact the day to day struggles of members of our Jewish community.
As never before, the commitment of the Jewish Free Loan to fulfill our mission is being tested on a daily basis. We are not only providing business loans to enterprising entrepreneurs, adoption or in-vitro loans to help Jewish individuals and couples become “family” and college education loans to provide the tools and knowledge that will enable another generation to create a better world, we are making sure that the most basic of human needs and dignity are maintained.
Today’s economic trauma has hit members of the Jewish community in untold numbers. We are contacted daily to maintain shelter, to keep the heat on during the winter and the air conditioning running in the other months; we have been asked to make sure the water is not shut off, we are providing car payments, insurance payments, and gas funds so people can continue to get to their jobs, and we are putting food on the table. We are making sure that medical and dental care continues to be available so that health care is maintained.
You – our donors — have helped make this possible and we appreciate your ongoing support. You — our donors — have helped us provide the loans which are helping many Jewish families in the community who have no other place to turn. They come in holding their heads low, ashamed and embarrassed to even have to ask.
They leave with an interest free loan which provides them the dignity to go out the door with their heads held high.
But we are concerned as we do not see an immediate end to the economic downturn. We do not see an immediate end to the increasing numbers of Jewish families and individuals who are coming through our doors or calling us in panic and fear.
For almost sixty years the Jewish Free Loan has been in the Valley to respond to those walking through our doors. For almost sixty years the Jewish Free Loan has been the place where the Jewish community has come to receive an interest free loan. And for almost sixty years the Jewish Free Loan has been the only Jewish organization which has provided interest free loans so that members of the Jewish community can improve their lives and achieve greater stability with regard to their long term welfare. We encourage and facilitate Jewish continuity. And…we will continue to be here!
