Holocaust Survivor Food Deliveries

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Holocaust survivors have suffered enough. That’s why Met Council has launched a vital new service during this pandemic to take care of the most vulnerable. Met Council is the largest provider of services to low-income Holocaust survivors in the United States, helping over 5,000 survivors a year.

When we realized that Holocaust survivors will be stuck, home alone without food, we reached out to Uber and created a first-of-its-kind pilot to deliver 500 Passover food packages directly to the door of Holocaust survivors. Our efforts made national news on CBS and you can read about it more in the New York Post and AM New York.

Due to the success of this partnership, we have now expanded this program and have launched a free service to provide over 1,000 homebound survivors in NY with groceries delivered straight to their door.

In Brooklyn (which has by far the largest concentration of survivors in the region), Met Council will continue partnering with Uber. In Queens, Met Council SenioRepair vans will deliver the food.

A Met Council volunteer recently delivered food to a Holocaust Survivor who was in tears, telling the volunteer through a closed door to please stick around a bit. The survivor said that she is her 90’s and this is the most horrible thing to happen to her since the Holocaust. She continued, “I’m living in a small apartment, been here for weeks with no one to talk to, and you are the first person I spoke to in weeks”.

Seniors who don’t even have access to technology are completely stuck because they can’t go out to buy the food and they have no one delivering the food to them and that’s why it is a vital and critical service that we are offering.

There are around 80,000 Holocaust survivors living in the US and a third of them live in poverty. 32% of the food pantries in New York City have already shut down because of the crisis. The homebound elderly are stuck at home and literally have no way to get food because they are quarantined. We need to be there for them.

We are their only lifeline, which is why we made it a priority to get this food to them.