Serve with a spoonful of sour cream on each bowl of soup. Add cooked diced potatoes 5-10 minutes before the borscht is finished. If food is so important to us who have plenty, imagine how it feels to wonder where the next meal is coming from. This year Bridges for Peace started Project Hope in the former Soviet Union to help feed Jewish people who cannot afford to purchase food. Most of them are elderly and many are Holocaust survivors.
Months go by with no income.
We discovered that many are existing on starvation rations. We could not turn our backs on their needs. We have partnered with Christians from Poland, Slovakia, and Siberia to establish soup kitchens. Working together, we are able to provide a large, nutritious meal once a day. For most, it is the only meal they will eat.