Hundreds of Prepared Meals Delivered By Chabad of Southwest Broward, Florida’s “Sunshine Circle”

Chabad of Southwest Broward, Florida, under the auspices of Rabbi Pinny and Gitty Andrusier’s “Sunshine Circle”‘ has been as busy as ever. “Being Shluchim in Florida, where a large part of the population is seniors, isolation and loneliness in a time like this is tremendous. I’ve been a Shliach here for over 28 years, and have never seen anything this hard for the Seniors, it’s harder then any hurricane we’ve had. I got an e-mail just yesterday, from a couple in our community that only had only eggs and apples left in their fridge and needed the cops to go out and shop for them”, said Rabbi Pinny.

Run by Rabbi Shimon and Liba Andrusier, Shluchim of Chabad of Century Village in Pembroke Pines, FL, “Sunshine Circle” has been serving Seniors in South Broward for over 6 years. “Project Connect!” started nearly 3 weeks ago, serving hundreds of Holocaust Survivors & Seniors in quarantine with no family nearby. It’s mission is to combat loneliness, provide friendship, prepared meals, basic necessities and be an anchor for them.

“We started “Project Connect!” after getting many calls from seniors and their children all over the world asking us to help their parents. Some are in need of prepared meals (since their home health aid’s have left them) some are extremely lonely and depressed and wanting some connection and many some ran out of basic necessities like toilet paper, paper towels, Tylenol or water”, said Rabbi Shimon Andrusier.

“I got a call from Rachel K., a 92 year-old Holocaust Survivor in our Village, who just lost her husband a few months ago, and her words to me were, “Rebbetzin, this is like another Holocaust”, said Liba Andrusier. Since her call, we have been sending prepared meals, homemade cards by kids, had a therapist from the JFS call her to chat and been making sure that she is getting daily calls from our volunteers.

Thanks to Aroma Kosher Market of Cooper City, who donated the prepared meals and Ness Paper who donated cases of gloves, toilet paper and paper towels and to the countless volunteers who signed up to do calls, grocery shopping and donated, we have been able to meet most of the seniors needs that have been reaching out.

Next Wednesday, we are delivering over 100 “Seder-to-Go” Packages with two Seder meals, Wine, Grape Juice, Matza and the Kaara, but many of the seniors cannot afford these packages. YOU can help us out from wherever you are in the world and call Homebound Holocaust Survivors and lonely Seniors or Donate towards the cause.

To get involved, volunteer, donate and be a part of it, please go to www.sunshinecirclefl.com or www.chabadswb.com