HaYoreh and the Israel Homeless Association project added the Municipality of Haifa to its client list in October 2020.

Haifa has been a client of the Bedek Habayit synagogue renovation & repair program, as well as the Lawyers of Last Resort program, but this is the first time that Revacha has utilized RHIF's Israel Homeless Association to provide assistance.
The program initiated in October pays for urgent repairs to flats of pensioners who cannot afford the payment. In the first round, IHA paid for:

(a) three repairs of holes in the walls or roof exposing the flats and their residents to the outside elements;

(b) new toilet and shower facilities where no working facilities has existed at all for over a year;

(c) new electric wiring where the wiring had frayed to the point of fire hazard. In one case the fire dept turned off electricity until the wiring could be repaired, and the woman (age 81) resided over 90 days without electricity because she couldn't afford the wiring but couldn't alert anyone to her plight.

Once again, these projects underscore the misnomer of the Israel Homeless Association, which should more likely be named the Israel pre-Homeless or Homeless Avoidance Association program.

The Israel Homeless Association program is housed in the Cottrell Center of the HaYoreh: First Rains NGO incubator. (www.first-rains.org)
Executive@RobinHoodIsrael.ngo