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Shalom Dear Contributors and friends of the Olim Fund,
Thanks to your continuing generosity and loving outreach we were
able to conclude 2003 with another good month of blessings for
our olim families who continue in great need.
This has been a wonderful time of growth and new happenings,
both now and in the immediate future:
1. We have decided to form an official tax free Israeli Charity
("Amutah") to give us more flexibility of working with
Word of Life and the Olim Fund of North America. We are doing
this in anticipation of some projected significant increased cash
inflow.
2. As we enter this "official" status, we are changing
our name to "The Olim Fund of Israel" in order to allow
us to reach out to other parts of the country as more funds become
available.
3. Jacob Weinberg, a new olim from the United States and a retired
business man with many skills has agreed to join our Board of
Advisors and he is most welcome and appreciated.
4. My 3 disc DVD college level teaching developed for Faith Seminary
and the general Christian Church entitled "The Jewish Origins
of Christianity" will be mass marketed by Sid Roth of Messianic
Vision starting, hopefully in March. All profit flowing to Israel
from this venture will be donated to the Fund.
Finally, on behalf of the Board of Advisors I wish you all a
wonderful and productive new year. You can be sure that blessings
will flow to you from the storehouse in heaven as you continue
to bless His people Israel.
Following is the report of distributions for December 2003.
With love and blessings,
Bob Fischer
OLIM FUND OF THE GALILEE
December
2003, DISTRIBUTION
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Family Size
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Location
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Monthly Income
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Overview of Situation
Funded
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Gift
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5
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Hadera
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$1457
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Family with
three young children fell into great debt during
time of unemployment and non-functioning government agency
due to strike. Head of family again employed. One time gift
to help them recover to solvency.
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$464
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3
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Hadera
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nil
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Unemployed widow with daughter and granddaughter
living at home. Unemployment benefits pending but held up
due to strike. Both adults are desperately looking for work.
One time gift to tide them over.
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$464
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4
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Hadera
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$1314
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We helped this family last year when their
first child was born with spino bifida and needed a walking
prosthetic device. Now they have a second child and have
no means to purchase a double stroller so they can take
family walks. One time gift to buy them this stroller.
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$325
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4
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Hadera
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$1346
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Young couple with two young children were
forced to relocate to Hadera in order to accept part time
jobs yielding just enough to provide for the bare necessities.
They are unable to fund a wardrobe for the children who
are consequently living out of suitcases. One time gift
to buy them a wardrobe.
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$464
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4
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Haifa
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$673
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Divorced woman with three teenagers living
at home .Her ex-husband is in prison for drug related crime.
She is in ill health and is unable to work. She recently
lost the apartment they were buying due to default of mortgage
and is now desperately trying to survive in a small apartment.
One time gift to help her pay required advance rent.
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$464
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5
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Nesher
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$348
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Head of family has a failing business that
has produced no income for four months. Spouse injured hand
and had to quite her part time job for two months. Family
has fallen into great debt and needs help to provide even
the most basic food, rent and utilities.
One time gift.
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$464
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3
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Nazareth
Illit
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nil
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Head of family being divorced by spouse
because of spiritual mismatch. He is a believer, she isn’t.
After they separated she ran up a huge debt that he is responsible
to pay. He just found a full time job after several months
of unemployment. One time gift to help him recover solvency.
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$464
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1
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Nazareth
Illit
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$351
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Divorced single woman in ill health working
part time cleaning houses. She is unable to make ends meet
and has fallen in debt. One time gift to provide food and
other basic necessities.
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$464
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2
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Nazareth
Illit
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$348
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Divorced mother of college student survives
with part time work but insufficient income to pay even
minimum college expenses of her son who is also unable to
work since he must spend all his extra time learning Hebrew.
One time gift.
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$464
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4
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Nazareth
Illit
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$835
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Family with two young children unable to
pay for school expenses and have an emergency need to replace
their kitchen sink that somehow cracked and is no longer
functional. One time gift.
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$464
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4
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Karmiel
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$696
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An independent translator has been unable
to open a business file that allows him to work due to the
just concluded three-month long government workers strike.
Hence, although work was available for him, he could not
legally pursue it and his family has fallen into great debt
as a result. This is a one time gift to help them recover
from this situation.
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$464
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1
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Haifa
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$278
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Single man has recently been promised a
job but his marginal government support is insufficient
for his to buy a pair of eye glasses which he desperately
needs. One time gift.
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$232
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2
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Haifa
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$93
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Divorced mother with teenager ceased receiving
government assistance during prolonged just ended strike.
She is desperately looking for work and has fallen into
very hard times. One time gift to provide basic necessities
until situation is resolved.
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$464
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2
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Haifa
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$401
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Widow with invalid son living at home has
been unable to find work and has run up a considerable debt.
One time gift to help meet basic survival needs.
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$364
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Total
monthly gifts
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$6025
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