by Ruth Heller
Ruth Heller, who was visiting Israel from London, describes
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the Chanuka parties organised for underpriviledged children in Rishon Letzion. Besides doughnuts and sweets, the children were also given delightful sweaters handmade by the ladies of the ESRA knitting circle in Rishon Lestzion .
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by Nina Zuck
There are many schemes that encourage youngsters to
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know about and help people who are less fortunate than themselves. How did a school in Denver in America come to donate a sewing machine to the ESRA sewing center in Netanya?
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“English without Borders”, a joint tutoring project
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in Netanya, is a combined venture between AACI Netanya and ESRA Netanya. All the volunteers are screened and attend a workshop. They then assist with English in an elementary, junior high or high school. Established three years ago and now with eight schools in the scheme, most of the volunteers give their services for two hours once or twice a week.
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by Helen Schary Motro
Thanks to ESRA’s support teenagers with cerebral
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palsy have a place of their own that welcomes them, and a group of friends that waits to meet with them every week. For the last ten years ESRA has sponsored this special social club in the community center of Kfar Shmaryahu. Like its other good works, ESRA maintains this club quietly, steadfastly, without fanfare, and largely without publicity.
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by Marian Lebor
www.dating4disabled.com – free dating service and
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online community that offers people with disabilities the opportunity to connect with one another through the use of forums, blogs, group chat and instant messaging. Members share resources, make friends and create valuable social networks, and some find their life partner.
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by Adele Rubin
In 1985 Nomika Zion and a group of young kibbutzniks
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felt that the kibbutzim were no longer fulfilling as positive a role as in the past. So they formed Kibbutz Migvan (1987), a new model of communal living, ‘soft socialism’, where the individual is in the center rather than the needs of the cooperative being the deciding factor.
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by Vera Freudmann
At 18, Alice married to escape from her deprived life.
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Her husband’s drug habit led her onto the same path. Their two children were removed by social services and adopted by other families. Her husband committed suicide and for twenty years she existed as a vagrant and prostitute until she joined an Al Sam drug rehabilitation program. Back in her vandalized apartment, ESRA donors funded the repairs.
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by Rika Meyerowitz
For the past years Avi Farag, the director of the Community
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Center in the Neot Shaked neighborhood of Netanya, has been arranging a Seder for those who have nowhere else to go for one reason or another. These include lone soldiers, single parents and financially stressed families as well as some physically disabled persons.
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by Gert Goldstein
"Students Build a Community" project in Kfar Saba
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is nearing the completion of its first year. Patterned after the existing program in Netanya, the Kfar Saba project is sponsored by the Kfar Saba municipality, Beit Berl College and ESRA, with other smaller foundations also participating.
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by Meera Jacobson
Ministry of Defence Social Workers meet ESRA volunteers
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in Hefzibah. Meera Jacobson describes how we can learn from the people we help, and how they can learn from us; and about how the bottom line is to make a contribution in whatever field suits your capabilities.
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by Phyllis Bloch
Home parties are proving successful venues for the
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sale of beautiful items made by ESRA’S Ethiopian embroidery groups.
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by Joan Weisman
A heart warming report on the excitement and gratitude
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felt by the young girls who are part of ESRA’s neighbourhood choir project when they were each given a new pair of shoes.
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by Gidon Levitas 1936-2010
A generous family trust donation resulted in the acquisition
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twelve new computers and screens for the Neot Shaked Center one of the project initiatives supported by ESRA in Netanya
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by Adele Rubin
The Atzmaut Ethiopian Center situated in Sderot is
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a buzz of activity. It caters for all ages and the director Batsheva Tamno is doing wonderful work with the support of numerous organizations and assistance of many volunteers.
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Medical, emergency, social and cultural support for
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the over 60's living in their own homes - jointly operated by municipal and ministry services and a local volunteer organization, the service operates all over Israel.
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