AFTER
SCHOOL CENTERS FOR KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN
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Rationale:
To offer an enriching, warm, supportive and
caring environment, after
kindergarten hours, for immigrant and
local pre-schoolers from dysfunctional families, where problems
of alcoholism, divorce, chronic illness and unemployment cause children
to be 'at risk'. |
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Operation:
The centers are run in co-operation with local
and central government, and volunteers. Children, mostly new immigrants
from Ethiopia and the FSU, are referred by the municipal Social
Services Department.
Location:
Kfar Saba: Currently
twenty four children, aged 4-6, are transported daily to the Center,
which was opened in 1993
The
Program:
The Center provides a nurturing and stabilising home away from home.
The children receive a hot meal, and work in small groups on enrichment
activities, educational games and language development. |
Centers
operated by ESRA, 1991-1997: Neve Sharett, Tel Aviv Community
Center; Schunat Shapira - Tel Aviv; Lev Hasharon Moshavim: Yanuv,
Nordiya, Kfar Hess.
Total
No. Participants:
A total of 770 immigrant children have participated in ESRA's After
School Centers. |
