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AMIT STUDENTS WELCOME THE CHILDREN OF GUSH KATIF
New York City, September 14, 2005...... Loss is something the children at the AMIT Kfar Blatt Youth Village and Mishpachton are all too familiar with. This quiet, grassy facility in Petach Tikvah is home to 300 students from disadvantaged backgrounds who cannot live with their own families for a host of reasons.
As some 8,000 Israeli citizens embarked this summer on the arduous process of rebuilding their lives in the wake of the recent disengagement from Gaza and part of the northern West Bank, the volunteers, staff and, most of all, the students of AMIT Kfar Blatt were determined to help ease their pain.
Traveling by bus from their temporary housing in Nitzan and hotels in Jerusalem, over 200 children from Gush Katif arrived at the youth village for a Yom Kef or Fun Day this past August.
Attractions included giant inflated jumping toys, a kiddy pool and water slide, a DJ, movies on a big screen, bicycles and scooters to use in the gym, a dance workshop, and four different arts and crafts workshops. Guests were treated to breakfast and lunch and lots of goodies in between.
For fathers who attended, there were shiurim in the synagogue with the Kfar’s rabbi. Many parents, however, did not attend, because this day coincided with funerals that were held after gravesites were moved from Gush Katif to alternate locations in Israel. On such a day, it was a comfort to parents that their children were given such special attention.
AMIT students are not newcomers to hosting other children in need. Last Hanukkah more than 1,000 children from Sderot, a development town in southern Israel, were bused to our flagship facility in Ra’anana for peaceful days away from the barrage of Kassam rocket attacks which are launched by neighboring Palestinian terrorists. The young children of the AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled Child Haven in Jerusalem have also been guests at the village.
AMIT enables Israel's youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values and Zionist ideals.
AMIT educates and cares for Israel’s youth, including the most vulnerable. More than three quarters of AMIT students cope with educational, psychological, economic and/or social risk factors. AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli society. The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities. Founded in 1925, AMIT operates more than 60 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs, constituting Israel’s only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies.
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Media Contact:
Barbara Goldberg
Director of Communications
212-477-4720, ext. 127
barbarag@amitchildren.org
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