Projects in the Community
Early in 1990, in the face of the major wave of immigration, ESRA decided to initiate and operate projects to meet the needs of new immigrants and other disadvantaged sectors of the community including the handicapped and victimized.
To this end, ESRA started to raise money for the 'ESRA Immigrant Fund' - later renamed the ESRA Community Fund or ECF
Over 20,000 immigrant and disadvantaged families have been assisted by the projects run by the ECF in the areas of education, welfare and employment.
You can read more about our numerous projects in the community by clicking on the orange headlines below.
If you would like to donate to any of these projects, please click on this link .
| Projects | |
|---|---|
| Afternoon Activity for Special Needs Children | This project offers once a week afternoon activity centers for children with special needs enabling these children to enjoy enrichment activities in the after school hours, and preventing their social isolation. |
| Afternoon Kindergarten | 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'. |
| Center for Treatment of Family Violence | This is a model to reduce domestic violence, pioneering a dynamic approach of working couple or group therapy. |
| Charity Second Hand Shops | To provide immigrant and disadvantaged Israelis, and foreign workers, the opportunity to purchase cheap clothing and household items of quality |
| Crisis Welfare Assistance - ESRA’s helping hand to those in need in the community. | To assist immigrants from distressed countries and other persons in need who find themselves in temporary crisis due to health, unemployment or other difficulties and who can benefit from financial help. This aid, though the amount is not large, often enables the individual or family to overcome their immediate problem. |
| Ethiopian Embroidery Project | To allow Ethiopian women to work at home using their ethnic embroidery skills thereby gaining a supplementary income whilst being able to care for their children. |
| Hand in Hand Food Pantry | To supply food packages to distressed families in the South Netanya Neighbourhoods. |
| Hefzibah Community Projects, Netanya | Volunteers run several non-funded projects in the Hefzibah Community in addition to, and as a result of, the Students Build a Neighbourhood Project. Damsash, head of the Hefzibah Neighbourhood Committee explains the amazing turnaround in the neighbourhood since the project began. |
| Music Centre for Excellence | To encourage excellence in the arts in talented Ethiopian children . To develop their self confidence and raise their self esteem. To create performances that will be a source of pride to the children and their community. |
| Nativ After School Center for Special Needs Children | The Centre provides a full afternoon program and a warm atmosphere for children with severe emotional and behavioural problems in order to keep them off the streets after school hours. |