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Read these personal stories brought to us by social services professionals around Israel. The names of all applicants have been changed to protect individual privacy. The names of the verifying social worker and agency are real. Photographs are illustrative only.
Yair, 31, and Leah, 28, both completed 12 years of school and did their full Army service. Yair now learns in a kollel, while Leah is at home, taking care of their five small children. Their only income is the small stipend that the kollel gives Yair each month. This...
Olga, 14, moved to Israel with her father, Igor, and her little brother less than a year ago. None of them speaks Hebrew, which has made their transition difficult. Igor, 41, found work as a cook on an Army base, where he works long hours to provide for the family....
Tzippy, 25, is not afraid to take risks and face challenges. She is a young woman with impressive internal resources and determination. Tzippy has been supporting herself since she was 17, when her family kicked her out of the house because she decided to abandon their Chabad lifestyle. She finished...
Reut, 40, is a loving and caring mother to her 10-year old son, Livni. Tragically, Livni’s father died when he was an infant. Reut works as a cleaner, and her salary is quite low. She focuses as many of her resources as she can on supporting Livni, who is a...
Orna, 44, is raising her 13-year-old son on her own. Orna worked for a catering company until she lost her job because of the Corona crisis. Because her salary was very low, Orna ran up some debts, and now the bank is claiming all of her unemployment payments. This leaves...
Ronit is an example of someone who has undergone hardship but continues to strive. The mother of two daughters, Ronit found herself in a violent and abusive marriage. Ten years ago, she and her children were moved to a shelter for battered women where they lived for a year. Soon...
Michal, 39, is divorced and raising four children on her own. Despite her complicated family history, Michal has made every effort to support herself and her children and get ahead in life. Michal started her degree in special education but, unfortunately, due to a family crisis, she had to drop...
Anat, 28, is separated from her husband and raising two young children on her own. She is an impressive young woman. Anat had the opportunity to join a social services program that empowers women who are looking to join the workforce. She has always dreamed of being a manicurist and...
Dena, 18.5, and Boaz, 21, have been married for 18 months. They already have a one-year-old baby and Dena is pregnant. Boaz grew up in an ultra-Orthodox home and chose to leave that lifestyle. As a result, his family cut off all contact with him. Dena’s mother is a widow...
Daniel, 20, has had a troubled and complicated upbringing. As the youngest of eight brothers, he grew up in an ultra-Orthodox household. As far back as he can remember, his father suffered from dementia and his mother spent most of her time caring for him. Daniel suffered physical abuse by...
After 11 years of marriage and two children, Chaya and her husband divorced. They maintained good relations and enjoyed frequent visits, so his death from cancer a few years later hit all three of them very hard. Chaya married again and had a third child, but the marriage did not...
Hannah was born after a normal pregnancy but within two months, she was hospitalized with respiratory problems. It soon became clear that she had a host of issues, including apoplexy, a heart defect, hearing loss and widespread developmental delays. Now four years old, Hannah needs constant attention and support, as...
The CORONA Relief Fund
for the benefit of individuals and families dealing with financial loss resulting from COVID-19
After consultations with our partner social workers in agencies around the country, Ten Gav has established the CORONA Relief Fund to deal with extraordinary circumstances created by the impact of the coronavirus.
Project ONWARD 2020
for the benefit of women in distress
Project ONWARD is an ongoing fund, created in order to address the needs of Israeli single mothers and young women who are attempting to overcome the challenges of poor housing conditions and inadequate resources and support. Project ONWARD funds basic needs (fridges, beds, ovens and washers), educational and vocational programs and computers that...
Project BOOST 2020
for the benefit of At-Risk Youth
Through our work with social services departments around the country we know how badly at-risk youth need our continuous support. We have therefore established Project BOOST, an ongoing fund, so that together, we can help them. The goals of Project BOOST are: To empower at risk youth to complete schooling...
Recently Funded Personal Stories
Recently, nine-year old Gaby’s behavior has changed. Always quiet and reserved, she ripped the pages out of a book and sometimes lies on her classroom floor without a word or movement. When her team lost a game, she blamed herself to an extent that was out of scale. Gaby’s concerned...
Yaffa and Eli are an elderly couple who are very poor. They live off of their government pension only, which mainly goes directly to rent. Their children are rarely in touch and help out occasionally but not financially. The couple’s oven is broken and barely works, which makes cooking and...
The Levi family faces an on-going struggle with economic, emotional, and medical issues. Yona Levi, 41, suffers from such frequent and overwhelming bouts of depression that it has become impossible for her to work. Shaul, 47, had to close his business and, while he is working part-time and looking for...
Six years ago, a fall in a bus left Adi badly injured and traumatized. Since then she has been confined to a wheelchair and cannot tend to even her basic needs. Despite her limitations, Adi does her best to take care of her children (ages 13 and 9), to stay...
After the birth of her sixth child, four months ago, Carmella, 39, sank into such serious post-partum depression that she had to be hospitalized. This threw her family into crisis. The new baby daughter and her older sister went to live with an aunt, but Carmella’s husband, Caleb, 46, has...
Lisa’s eyesight has been declining for years; she is now almost completely blind. In the past, she worked as a cleaner and at other temporary jobs, but these are now impossible for her. She is looking for a position that she can fill despite her vision problems. In the meantime,...
Dina works full time in a store and spends her small salary as carefully as she can. But it is insufficient to cover the needs of her five children. Dina and her husband divorced a year ago. He has no job so does not contribute to the welfare of his...
Until she was diagnosed with cancer, Betty, worked at a daycare center. Her small salary and her husband’s disability stipend were the family’s sole income. They lived in a tiny apartment with their two children, ages seven and one. Due to Betty’s current situation, she and her children moved to...