Tikkun Olam Day

Playing with the children at Gateway

Wow, what a Tikkun Olam day! Over 175 B’nai Amoona adults and children spent this past Sunday morning at Gateway180. Gateway180’s mission is to provide safe, nurturing emergency shelter services designed to get women, children and families into homes in 30-days or less. We have been partnering with Gateway180 since last year and have developed a really nice relationship. They love that we keep coming back. This past Sunday we scrubbed some rooms that needed to be cleaned, cooked lunch for the residents, cleaned up the grounds with our beautification committee, made over 100 sack lunches and bags of trail mix that Gateway can hand out to those in need, created a quilt as a gift to the shelter, and offered opportunities for our children and their children to get to know one another while enjoying art projects, board games, Israeli dancing and sports. 

Taking a snack break

Thank you so much to everyone who helped make the morning such a success. We had so many people attend, more than double last year. Next year we might need two sights for Tikkun Olam day.

We look forward to our next opportunity with Gateway180 when we welcome their children to our Purim carnival on March 11th. 

We had so many pictures of smiling children, here are a few 

Making PB & J sandwiches for sack lunches

Sports time for B'nai Amoona and Gateway children

Playing

Making a quilt for the wall at Gateway

Our Beautification Committee

The new chiefs

Grilled Cheese