Purchasing OHEL’s Mishloach Manot Helps Provide Jobs for Individuals with Disabilities

OHEL’s Coffee Themed Mishloach Manot Will Perk You Up!

It’s a Mitzvah on Purim to send mishloach manot, but making and sending to all of your family and friends can be expensive and time consuming. Fear not! OHEL’s Day Habilitation program has you covered for Purim this year.

The individuals from OHEL Bais Ezra’s Day Habilitation Program will be packaging and selling mishloach manot this year. The theme of their mishloach manot is coffee, and there will be two packages to choose from. Each individual package will be put together with care and love by a developmentally disabled adult, with help from members of the community.

By buying mishloach manot from OHEL, you are not only giving shaloach manot, but so much more! This unique Mishloach Manot provides jobs and skill training, and instills OHEL individuals with dignity and a sense of accomplishment. Adele, who participates in the yearly program, said “I enjoy putting the shallach manos together for other people”, and Avigayil said “I like that we can help out and still get paid!”

Helping an individual with disabilities to be employed and to learn skills is priceless.  To learn more, visit www.ohelpurim.org and support OHEL’s Day Habilitation employment program. You did good, so feel good this Purim, knowing you made a difference in the life of an individual with a disability.

Since 1969, OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services has served as a dependable haven of individual and family support, helping people of all ages surmount everyday challenges, heal from trauma, and manage with strength and dignity during times of crises. Driven by service excellence, OHEL’s professional staff meet the myriad social service needs of the general community, while at the same time providing culturally-sensitive services to the Jewish community, including Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian speakers. Through highly-rated foster care, developmental disability, mental health, and other programs and services, OHEL provides supportive housing, treatment, care coordination, education, outreach and much more to elevate lives and strengthen individuals and communities in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Florida, California and worldwide on the web. David Mandel is the CEO of OHEL.