CSSY Assisted 500 Families With Pesach Groceries

Dear Friends,

THANK YOU! I am filled with gratitude and appreciation for your unwavering support.

Regardless of the ever-rising costs of food and the financial challenges that so many are facing, Crown Heights was there for each other.

Fulfilling the Rebbe’s request to ensure that everyone in our community has the necessities to celebrate every Shabbos and Yom Tov, you opened your hearts and wallets and gave.

Thank you for providing beautiful Sederim with matzah, wine, grape juice, chicken, eggs and more for hundreds of families in our community.

This Pesach, there were ten Yom Tov meals that every family needed to make, and you put food on tables for every single one of those seudos.

Thank you for your generosity and partnership with CSSY. Thanks to you, we could say YES when people asked for assistance. Thank you for caring about your community.

A special thank you to our local grocery, butchers and produce stores for participating in the voucher program, allowing struggling families to purchase essential items for Yom Tov with dignity using coupons.

Thank you to the local businesses who contributed their resources to help the community.

Thank you to anash and shluchim from around the world, who continue to support the Rebbe’s neighborhood of Crown Heights, ensuring the words of the Rebbe that this is a place of “kan tziva Hashem es habracha”. This is an extraordinary community of chassidim standing together to support each other.

To every person who donated, thank you for caring for your friends, neighbors, and relatives in need. You transformed people’s Pesach.

Thanks to you:

Over 500 Crown Heights families benefited from your generosity this Pesach.

Single mothers struggling to feed their children and hardworking parents had what they needed for their families without undue stress and anxiety.

Over 2,000 of pounds of Shemurah Matzah were distributed, relieving the burden of that enormous cost.

$325,000 worth of food vouchers were given to 300 families, helping them buy food in our local grocery stores while maintaining their dignity and respect.

$200,000 in cash grants were allocated to 160 larger families who required additional financial support during Pesach.

Dozens of Checks were mailed to hard-working fathers and mothers who were too ashamed to request assistance. They were pleasantly surprised to find unsolicited assistance sitting in their mailbox.

Outstanding grocery bills for over 75 families were discreetly paid, ensuring that unpaid bills didn’t detract from Simchas Yom Tov.

Additional support was provided with dignity, such as new clothing for children, extra spending money for single mothers, and assistance for those facing distinct challenges.

Although Pesach has ended, our work continues.

CSSY continues to assist throughout the year by distributing weekly food vouchers to families in Crown Heights. Your ongoing support ensures that we can continue to provide for the neediest members of our community in the most sensitive way, offering them true “Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov.” People turn to CSSY, knowing we are always there to help keep food on their tables and provide support in so many different ways. From assisting with urgent mental health crises, and providing resources and support to ensuring those in our community needing help with kevura, people know that at CSSY they will be helped while maintaining their dignity.

I hope and daven that Crown Heights continues to be a place where we live together b’achdus, helping each other, and are all benched with gezunt, parnasa and nachas b’harchava.

Thank you once again for your continued support and partnership with CSSY,

Sincerely,
Benzion Stock

To learn more about Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov and our ongoing activities or to donate please visit www.CSSY.org.
Checks can be mailed to: CSSY 593 Montgomery St Brooklyn NY 11225
If you or someone you know needs assistance please call our office at 718-774-5270 or email office@cssy.org