About the project
The Ganim Food Cooperative was established to provide Kiryat Menachem and Ir Ganim residents with an alternative to local supermarkets. The co-op buys food from wholesalers, and volunteers operate the store to enable it to sell food at prices that are 25%-40% cheaper than at grocery stores and supermarkets. The co-op is operated by Community Advocacy, a social rights organization that modeled the facility after the first food co-op it established in the Katamonim neighborhoods in 2000. The co-op is located near several large housing projects that are home to many poor immigrant families (initially immigrants from Middle Eastern countries, and later those from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.)The Jerusalem Foundation has supported building renovations and equipment purchase for the co-op.
