Jill Shaw and Liz Morris cutting the ribbon to officially open the new ESRA computer center in Netanya 

When donors, volunteers and community center managers succeed in matching funds to the needs of local program participants, favorable results follow.

Clearly, that characterized a ceremony at Netanya's Neot Shaked community center in mid-January. The director, Avi Faraj, welcomed family members of the late Edward and Rosemary Isaacs from Sheffield: daughter Jill Shaw from London with her sister, Liz Morris and brother-in-law Terry Morris from Raanana, who generously provided funds from the Isaacs family charities’ trust, enabling ESRA to acquire twelve new computers and screens for the center's renewed computer learning room.

Sitting at the computer desks were teenagers, participants in a program for upgrading essential computer skills, including browsing popular websites like 'Facebook' as well as more complex programs, under the tutelage of a qualified instructor. According to Avi, additional beneficiaries were other neighborhood youngsters given the old computers, still in good condition, for home use.

ESRA's chairman, Debby Lieberman, the projects committee chairman, Nina Zuck, and members of Netanya's ESRA volunteers group attended the event, one of many project initiatives ESRA supports in Netanya. Other funds to which the Isaacs family donate are scholarships for ESRA’s 'students build a neighborhood' project in Hefziba.