Welcome to our Jewish Care Cape 2012 new website look and feel! Our webmaster and designer is inspiring us to upload and present fresh, new and exciting material and we are delighted to have him on board.
The catch words for 2012 directing and guiding us in these unpredictable times are, frugality, sustainability, co-existence and of course always, humility, love, peace and happiness to all of us……….
For the past 4 years I have been employed by Jewish Care Cape as the Administrator/Co-ordinator. I have been consistent in my dedication to developing JCC as an umbrella body for the seven Jewish welfare organisations for purposes of rationalisation and unity. With the support and encouragement of the chairperson’s and the committee over the last years I have been responsible for establishing parameters and implementing new projects.
Some of the initiatives include:
- developing and maintaining a project involving specialised medical doctors who have been approached to provide their specialist services approximately twice a year to indigent Jewish people with no access to medical aid;
- organising and event management of a combined AGM with all the organisations represented and usually with invitees making up 300 people. This has become a major event in the Jewish community calendar;
- contributing to the JCC’s website development and the writing of a bi-weekly column titled ‘Shifra Says’.
Together with the current chairman, we work closely to sustain and grow the concept and reality of JCC.
In the next few months I will be bringing you stories (heimische ones) about the exceptional recipients of our Jewish Care Cape Awards given at our AGM, people who have excelled in their capacities as ‘givers’ to the Jewish community and beyond…..
Stories of Herzlia learners committed to doing welfare work, and medical doctors and healthcare professionals who selflessly share their skills, expertise and services to members of our community who do not have access to adequate healthcare.
This is the stuff of our JCC work. I hope you will enjoy reading about us, as much as we enjoy sharing the wonderful work of our organisations.
Shifra Jacobson
C 0835097154
T 021 4646737