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Sometimes, food, clothing and shelter aren't enough to fulfill a child's basic needs.
Many of AMIT's children have spent the past years looking over their shoulders, wondering if their city bus will bring them to school safely, hoping they can run a few errands down the street and return home without incident. For these children, the opportunity to participate in vacation activities during the summer, far from the sound of gunfire and exploding mortar shells, is a necessity and more important than ever before.
Many of the children in AMIT's care cannot - or should not - spend time at home because of the pervasive threat of domestic violence and abuse. These children need the chance to go hiking and swimming, to participate in recreational, fun activities far from the stress and emotional pressures in their everyday lives. They need, and deserve, the opportunity to be children.
The children in the AMIT Network also benefit from intensive tutorials, which provide the extra help and skills these youngsters need to overcome their poverty and family instability. The impressive percentage of AMIT students doing well on the Bagrut (national matriculation examinations) is due in part to our tutorial program.
We also provide our students with individualized counseling, so essential for children who have endured the trauma of severely dysfunctional family life and now must also live with the constant fear of terrorist bombings and attacks.
And there are students who need additional, scholarship assistance just to get through a year of school. A student scholarship ensures that the AMIT child will have the funds to buy books, supplies and all the necessities for a successful school year.
AMIT's Student Enrichment Fund and Scholarships enables the donor to contribute directly to the wellbeing of our students by supporting activities that are not funded by the Israeli government, yet are essential to our children's success, happiness and overall welfare.
Please click here to participate in AMIT's Student Enrichment Fund or to provide a scholarship for an AMIT student, or contact AMIT by calling 212-477-4720 or 1-800-989-AMIT.
Please note that all contributions to AMIT are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
AMIT meets all Standards of Charity Accountability of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York.
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