Another wonderful surprise…

Today at soup kitchen, T (one of the homeless men), came up to me and said, “Maureen, I need to talk to you about something.”  This isn’t a rare occurrence… it seems like he says this to me every week, so I replied, “Sure, during clothes distribution.”  I was honestly expecting him to be asking [...]

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The company you keep

“They” say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep.  I do agree with this, to an extent. I have quite a few different circle of friends, depending on where in the world they are located, but here in Israel I don’t really have a close circle of friends at all.
This [...]

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Soup Kitchen

This week we were blessed with many extra volunteers, so I took the opportunity to take a few pictures.  I realized that I have never brought my camera to Soup Kitchen…I guess it was about time!  Enjoy some moments from my Thursdays!

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Newbies at my table…

Today at soup kitchen for the homeless I didn’t have the usual group of Russian guys that I normally seem to get. (I jokenly named them the Russian Mofia, as they always sit at the same table with the same group of guys each week, speaking in Russian and basically talking to no one else…even [...]

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Homeless, but not brainless

Today when I was walking down Ben Yehuda St. I saw something that made me uncomfortable, yet smile a bit inside.
Seeing homeless people asking for money is nothing new; its a sad situation to say the least, which encompasses the city. Today, though, I saw something that I haven’t seen before.  There sitting right next [...]

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Only one of many

She is only one of many.  She has a past.  She has a family.  She has a story.  Yet, here she is living on the streets of Tel Aviv. Homeless. Desolate.  
She was a Jew living in Iran, experiencing the hatred thrown her way every day. (Can you only imagine that scenario?)  She wanted a [...]

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