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WJR drive 2,000km to give aid to communities

May 21, 2010 11:43
Volunteers Joe Gerrard and Mark Gershinson with young WJR clients

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World Jewish Relief volunteers have driven 2,000 kilometres across Europe to deliver two nine-seater vans to deprived Jewish communities.

Leaving from London, the volunteers travelled to Lithuania and Latvia as part of WJR's Mission Impossible, having raised the money for the vans, which were handed over in Vilnius and Riga.

On her fourth Mission Impossible, Hampstead housewife Siobhan Ezra was the group's sole female volunteer.

"When you give money to charity, you don't normally know how much goes to the project," she said. "But with this trip, you know exactly where it goes and it helps make a massive difference."