Send page to a Friend Adopt-a-Bubbe Program (Action for Post-Soviet Jewry (Action)) Boston’s Action for Post Soviet Jewry’s Adopt-a-Bubbe project provides medicines, clothing, food, and other important items to elderly residents and pensioners in several dozen Jewish communities in eastern Ukraine with support from the Kehillah Project.  Action also provides medicine and funding for a free pharmacy, housed in the Jewish community’s synagogue that serves pensioners and other needy Jewish individuals.  Since the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the resulting hyperinflation, pensions have become inadequate.  At the same time, food, clothing, medicine and apartments are no longer subsidized by the government, and the prices for these have risen beyond the reach of most pensioners.  The “Warm House” program provides pensioners a place to meet regularly in their own neighborhood to celebrate Jewish holidays, birthdays and other occasions with a hot meal. Return to Dnepropetrovsk Projects Page