Yad Eliezer, Food Donations, Israel
Yad Eliezer provides low-income families with both short-term relief in the form of food donations and with long-term solutions aimed to help them achieve financial stability. The organizations runs more than twelve different food and social service programs and provides services to more than 50,000 people in seventeen cities across Israel. Targum Shlishi supported various food donations initiatives in 2005. www.yadeliezer.org

The Rosh Pina Mainstreaming Network, Horfesh Community Learning Center, Horfesh, Israel
The Horfesh Community Learning Center is a new and unique initiative in Israel. The center, established in 2004, offers special education services for children in Horfesh, a Druze village located in the Western Galilee. Providing these services to Druze students within their own community is a model of special needs education that doesn’t exist elsewhere in Israel – special education students typically need to travel long distances to receive the services they require. In Horfesh, there are 31 special education students and 375 children in the village with learning disabilities and behavioral problems who previously received inadequate services because of the limited resources in the village. The Horfesh Community Learning Center addresses the previously unmet needs of these children and is intended to be a replicable model to be used in Arab and Jewish sectors throughout Israel. Targum Shlishi’s funds were applied to supporting parent/child activities and special events (including a summer institute) as well as the development of a therapeutic gymboree.

Jewish Student Press Service, New Voices Israel Correspondence Program and Website Redesign, New York
In 2005 Targum Shlishi continued its support of New Voices magazine’s Israel Correspondence Program. New Voices is a national magazine written by and for Jewish college students and distributed to campuses throughout the U.S. Targum Shlishi’s support funds the magazine’s Israel correspondents. In addition, Targum Shlishi is supporting the redesign of the publication’s website, which will update and expand the site. www.newvoices.org

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