Yes, it is in all senses warm, our House! Especially it is felt, when you are ill, in the street it is -25 degrees, and more than half a years it is cold. But Jews of Astana are warmed by a heat and care of Hesed. It is always pleasant to know and to feel, that there is a place, where remember, wait and are always ready to help, as in material, as with the spiritual plan.

Hesed provides the clients with most necessary and important, and the people very much appreciate it, because, as it would be sad, but many remain lonely and the community in their life plays the large role. It is necessary to recognize and Astana sponsors, which give us feeling of reliance for all rendered help to the clients with necessary means, and you see presently, you know, much requires the large expenses.

The programs work precisely: "SOS" - provides with expensive medicines, helps to debug bathroom equipment. In the children's program "Etgar" the kids from needy families receive, for example, vitamins, febrifuge, and tooth paste - and for them it is really important!

In the winter it is difficult for the people to supply themselves with warm things, blankets, pillows, bed accessories and program "Winter relief" is on the spot. And that is all, and a load has been taken off their mind!

Certainly, the special place belongs to the programs "Nutrition" and "Medicine", because a meal and health are connected in a continuous chain. Now there are more people become ill and only due to the workers of "Home care" and volunteers hold communication with the environmental world and receive products both for a feed, and for health. They are Yulia Oranskaya, Helena Emelyanovitch, Mark Lebedinsky - they are one of who are always grateful and wish only all the best to our organization.

Separate place in heart of a community takes former prisoners of concentration camps and ghetto. There are three of them in Astana. Helena Emelyanovitch, Dolena Tovarovskaya, Alexandra Frolova. Each of them has the history - lived on occupied territories, someone by the eyes had to see death of native from hands of Nazis, someone by miracle was rescued from menacing death. To these women is given the special attention and approach, because that horror, which was there since 1939 till 1945 it is impossible to depict to yourself, and, thanks the God it is finished! And behind a screen of received necessary products, medicines, things and etc.there is a laborious work of the director of Hesed Helena Levina, chief of medical aid Ocsana Baetova and chief of the program "Nutrition" N. Golovina.

Everyone works with the lists, rings round the people, asking, who what requires and, most important, when! Whether some more help is necessary? Constant communication and good relations with the sponsors - is an integral part of all occurring.

Purchasing, contracts with organizations, packing and delivery. It is wonderful that the connections with shops, drugstores and workers - are checked up persons are adjusted, with which it is easy and pleasant to work.

Hesed also works, and the people come on clubs and share with pleasures with each other of that now it is impossible to imagine, how we would live without Hesed!!!

Dina Itkina