DONATE TO MAKE THE PASSOVER SEDER HAPPEN
More than 4,500 people are expected at Passover Seder, making it likely the largest Seder in the world. With malnutrition being norm, especially among children, they are desperately in need of a Passover meal. It takes a village to hand-bake 50,000 pieces of matzah for Gondar and Addis Ababa's Jewish community. More than 80 people work from sunrise to sundown for two weeks prior to Passover to ensure that there is enough matzah for Seder night and the rest of the week. On the shopping list are 4,500 eggs, 600 kilograms of potatoes, 600 kilograms of bananas, and 100 kilograms of raisins to make homemade wine in two large barrels.
“Next year in Jerusalem” is the forever wishes and hopes for this community. They have been waiting for decades in dire conditions to reunite with their family and the promise of Israel. Please help support their health and well being by contributing to the Passover Seder
Staff: Rabbi, Educators, Coordinators, Cooks and Service, Cleaning, $40,000
Soup and Food, $22,000
Wheat for matzah, $9,000
Firewood for baking matzah, $7,500
Grinding materials to turn wheat into matzah, $2,000
Cups, Bowls, Kitchenware, $5,000
Wine for Seder, $4,500
Haggadot and Candles, $4,000
Eggs, $3,800
Potatoes, $3,000
Bananas, $2,000
Chickpeas, $1,000
Total $103,000
Struggle
to Save Ethiopian Jewry is the only American organization registered in
Ethiopia to provide services to the Jewish community. In addition to
the community’s generally desperate situation, SSEJ mitigates the
economic and health effects caused by Covid-19 and the devastation
resulting from the civil war. We serve over 2 million meals a year,
provide daily education to 2,250 registered students, furnish medical
care to 4,000 people, support religious and communal activities,
education and summer camps.
