Now This: Charity Teamed up with Uber to Deliver Passover Meals to Holocaust Survivors

This article originally appeared on Now This and was authored by Ashleigh Carter.

Met Council worked with Uber to deliver 500 Passover meals to New York City-based Holocaust survivors who can’t leave their house because of coronavirus.


Twitter/ David Greenfield

Twitter/ David Greenfield

Uber teamed with one of the largest Jewish charities in the U.S. to deliver Passover meals to low-income elderly people and Holocaust survivors. 

The widely-celebrated Jewish holiday began on Wednesday, but the coronavirus has prevented family gatherings for Passover. Met Council, a New York City-based Jewish charity, decided to partner with Uber to provide 500 meals in the days leading up to the religious holiday to Holocaust survivors in the area—many of whom are in their 80s and 90s and are at a particularly high-risk for COVID-19.

Met Council helps 3,000 Holocaust survivors a year, and offers housing, kosher meals, crisis intervention, and more services to people who need it.

CEO of Met Council David Greenfield told CBS News that one woman called about her elderly mother, who is a Holocaust survivor, asking for their help because she contracted coronavirus and couldn’t deliver food to her mother. 

“There are some 20,000 low-income Holocaust survivors who live in New York, we’re just really getting this started,” Greenfield told CBS News. “The reason we teamed up with Uber is because Uber has a reputation for excellence. … Essentially, we’re the first charity in the country to use Uber Eats technology to deliver food pantry food to seniors’ homes.”

The Passover meals consist of traditional kosher foods that Met Council had at their pantries. Uber got involved and offered to deliver the meals for free or at a discounted rate. The deliveries started on Friday, picking up the Passover meals from a distribution center in Brooklyn, and continued until Tuesday. 

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