This critical situation can be remedied. Our nurses are dedicated and committed, our administrators are skilled and competent, and our social workers are caring and supportive. Now we need you, the South African Jewish Diaspora, to join us in partnership with the Jewish community at home to help our elderly and handicapped. Your donations will allow those who need it most to live in dignity, and in a wholly Jewish environment. From underwriting salaries to the staff (some have worked for us for more than thirty years), to providing medicine, kosher food and social workers, our goal is to ensure that these homes will have the financial resources to maintain the same high quality they've always had. Whether you choose to support a specific home in the city in which you were born, or provide a non-restricted gift to support all homes equally, we will make sure your donation goes directly to someone who truly needs it and will benefit from it. For an annual gift of $360, you can provide extra spending money for a specific person-in order to make his or her life a bit easier. For instance, Mr. A, a Johannesburg widower with no children to care for him, uses his donation so he can stroll the beachfront with his friends and enjoy coffee and scones, attend the occasional theater performance, and have taxi fare to visit his wife's grave once a month. For an annual gift of $1,800, you can provide Mrs. R, a retired tailor born in Lithuania, with all the blood pressure medication and expert physical care she needs for an entire year. For $4,800, you can underwrite the annual living expenses for Ms. S--a 23-year old autistic woman with no living relative to help her. Ms. S has had the same primary care giver for the past fourteen years. Yet by next year, there will be no budget for her salary. For $10,000, you can be instrumental in helping any home you choose-and we will inscribe your own parents' names on a plaque in its lobby. For larger donations, we would be happy to discuss a variety of naming opportunities with you. Whether it is Mr. R, a 75 year old blind pensioner, who gave bar mitzvah lessons to hundreds of boys over the decades, or Mr. C, the former shamus of one of our synagogues, you can show the world that South Africa's most vulnerable Jewish community members will never be forgotten.