YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT

Our goal is to make sure everyone in need of food has food and to ease the immediate suffering of impoverished families. We aim to break poverty at its most fundamental stage, and give children from needy families a chance for a better future. We do this through 4 key projects: food basket distribution, Children’s Centers, Feed a Baby project and support for widows and orphans.

The goal of the weekly Food Distribution program is to provide needy families in Israel with proper, nutritious food for the week.

Our Children’s Centers goal is to try to break the cycle of poverty by providing young children with a daily hot lunch, help with their homework, winter supplies, school supplies, remedial therapies, and a chance for a better future.

We are aiming to open up a Children's Center in Tzfat servicing over 200 children in the coming months.

Our Feed a Baby project strives to provide baby formula, baby food, diapers, wipes,and other infant products to almost 500 new mothers and single parent families with very-young children in desperate need of help.

In addition, we help over 300 widows and 924 orphans with food vouchers to a local grocery store every month.

Our long-term goal is to secure enough funding to provide a response to address all the needs of the poor in Israel starting with babies and helping them through elementary school and then to graduate high school with the proper support they need.


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We are a nationwide organization working to secure enough food to distribute throughout Israel. We work closely with other non-profits, businesses and farmers to gain access to food. Forty percent of our donations come from in-kind donations of food. We deliver over 10,000 food baskets a week to alleviate poverty throughout all of Israel. In addition, during the holidays the influx of requests grows tenfold to over 50,000 requests for food baskets. In times of crisis our trucks need to be packed and ready to distribute food and emergency supplies.
The food is distributed through 4 warehouses strategically located for easy highway access and we have 47 distribution points throughout Israel.

Yad Ezra V’Shulamit has after-school children’s centers, where we feed 500 children every day, have a staff to help them with their homework, arrange therapies, provide school supplies and winter supplies - all in a caring, warm environment.
We have Children Centers in Jerusalem. We are aiming to open a new Children’s Center in Tzfat this year that will serve an additional 200 children. The Children’s Centers operate five days a week, 11 months a year.

In the summer the centers operate summer camp programs that offer a meal, arts and crafts, outings, and most importantly, summer fun. The centers are staffed throughout the year by both professionals and volunteers who get to know and support each child and are able to offer help or refer families for additional assistance where necessary. School Supplies and winter clothing is provided to students attending the Centers to ensure the children’s full educational, emotional, and physical well-being are met. This holistic approach and support network provided through the Children’s Centers is underpinned by providing children with only new clothing and supplies, ensuring the children can feel dignified in front of their peers. This is a key strategy in Yad Ezra V’Shulamit’s fight against poverty in Israel, which aims to build dignity and self-worth in children, allowing them to have the emotional confidence to persevere for life.

Yad Ezra V’Shulamit currently has 4 warehouses, 10 trucks and 47 distribution points throughout Israel which allow us to easily get food baskets to the needy all over Israel. Warehouses are in Jerusalem, Bat Yam and Elifelet and Tzfat. We utilize the food distribution centers to house our Feed a Baby products which are distributed through these distribution points.
Our Children’s Centers are positioned throughout Israel and staffed with warm and caring teachers and trained counselors. Therapies are addressed through skilled art, music, remedial and animal therapists.

Thanks to Yad Ezra V’Shulamit over 180,000 people in 2019 received basic food supplies so they do not go to bed hungry. This is a 21% increase from 2018 (100,000). In 2019 we helped 535 children daily, 30,000 families, 7,200 single parents, 1,050 widows and 6,633 orphans.

In 2019, 250,000 food baskets were distributed, 147,000 hot meals, 10,000 pieces of winter clothes and 10,000 cans of baby formula.
Our Bat Yam Distribution Center was recently opened, and we are looking to open a new building in Tzfat, both of with will enable us to increase our service provision and our fundraising.

In order to continue growing we have increased our procurement staff to bring in more in-kind donations. We are also working to focus our telemarketers and fundraisers to bring in additional funds so that we are able to reach more people each year. Our ultimate plan is to continue increasing our efforts until poverty and hunger no longer exist.


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