Mitzvah Day 2014

This year KLS is expanding its Mitzvah Day projects.  Join the Beiteinu pupils and the KLS Choir at Southborough Nursing Home in Langley Avenue (Surbiton) where the residents will be entertained with music and songs.

We are also introducing a year-round donation station for the Kingston Food Bank.  Non-perishable food (with a future Best Before date) that can be donated to help local people who are in crisis:

Milk(UHT or powdered)   Sugar(500g)  Fruit Juice(long life cartons)  Soup  Pasta sauces Sponge pudding(tinned) Tomatoes(tinned) Cereals Rice pudding(tinned) Tea bags/instant coffee Instant mash potato Rice/pasta Tinned meat/fish Tinned vegetables Tinned fruit Jam Biscuits or snack bars

Mitzvah Day is an international event:  Every year on Mitzvah Day an astounding 35,000+ people say ‘yes’ to social action and giving, spreading goodness, repairing the broken and quite simply, making this world a better place.

Mitzvah Day’s hundreds of social action initiatives are underpinned by our mission to reduce hardship and poverty, care better for our environment and give a little joy.  We bring these Jewish values alive by creating opportunities and partnerships that put them to work.  It’s all about imaginative hands-on projects that play a pivotal part in building stronger communities, creating durable links between different faiths and charities, both Jewish and not, and cultivating valuable relationships with other faith groups.

Mitzvah Day was founded in 2005 by Laura Marks and became a registered charity in 2008.  There are lots of ideas for Mitzvah Day at their website, as well as getting involved with KLS’s activities.