Education and residential care for orphans and at-risk children in Zaporozhye
The school and home provide support to orphans and vulnerable Jewish children who come from disadvantaged and abusive environments. The children arrive at the home as victims of a number of unthinkable cruelties, including neglect, abandonment and abuse, as well as the hardships of poverty, hunger and disease.
As well as providing for the children’s most basic needs such as food, shelter, clothes and medicine, the aims of the home are to create a safe, warm living environment to improve the children’s mental and physical health, to encourage social interaction and provide the children with an education.
The home in Zaporozhye, Ukraine, offers a new start in life to 26 Jewish children at risk of neglect or abuse, orphans aged six to 17 from unstable and impoverished families, or those living on the streets. A total of 153 children attend the school.
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