By, Jonathan Kalmus
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By, Jonathan Kalmus
The gardening skills of Manchester Habonim Dror members helped preserve allotments that needy residents rely upon for fresh produce.
As their Mitzvah Day contribution, the 16-to-19-year-olds tended to plots belonging to the husband of a terminally ill cancer patient and a woman who had suffered a heart attack.
The Habonim Dror members also worked with volunteers from other faiths to renovate tools and clean chicken runs in the Faith in Community allotment. The project produces 4,000 eggs annually as well as fresh vegetables which are donated to homeless, women's and asylum seekers' shelters across the city.
Oliver Rawlings, 17, from Altrincham, said: "Just contributing to what they do there every week of the year made me feel like part of something important."
