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Children & Youth At Risk – Overview
Last updated: 07.04.2010 The Social Welfare Services have identified 25% of Sderot’s youths as youth at risk. The ongoing security crisis has had a strong influence on the city’s younger residents: research carried out by the Natal Association found that, in the wake of Operation The Gvanim Association has been operating programs for children and youth in Sderot since 2002. Our programs strive to teach life skills, pride in our heritage and to instill values. Gvanim’s programs for children and youth at risk provide long-term, holistic solutions for all aspects of life. Building trust and dialog with children, youths and their parents is a key for helping them leave behind their destructive patterns and integrate into society. Gvanim’s programs for children and youth at risk include: Since 2001, more than 5,000 Kasam missiles have been fired at Sderot from the Gaza Strip. Children and youth at risk, and their families, are already vulnerable and are less able to cope to the security situation, and suffer more long-term emotional damage. Gvanim has increased the elements in each program that help Sderot’s residents cope with anxiety and trauma. Most, but not all, of Gvanim’s programs and activities for children and youths are held in fortified structures. In spite of the security crisis, the activities take place on a regular basis unless specific instructions from the Home Front Command determine otherwise.
Gvanim thanks its program partners: The DM Charitable Trust; the Family and Friends of Meir Zenwirt; The Sderot Community Center; the Municipality of Sderot, the Divisions of Education and Social Services; The Reut Association; The Ministry of Education, Hila program; the Noar Association; JDC-Israel; Ashlim; Magbit Canada - UIAC; Matan, Your Way to Give; the Samuel Sebba Fund; the Shteinmitz Foundation; the Glencore Foundation. |
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