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Daycare Centers for Education and Welfare and “Warm Homes” for Youth
ICL sponsors 30 daycare centers for primary school-aged at-risk children, as well as “warm homes” for high school-aged girls, contributing both educational and enrichment activities.
ICL’s daycare centers provide development and nurturing activities for hundreds of at-risk children in southern Israel towns and settlements during after-school hours. The children enjoy extracurricular activities, funded by ICL, as well as educational and moral content, through an active and close relationship that they develop with ICL’s current and retired employees, who volunteer at the centers. The employees serve as counselors, friends and role models, and maintain close and ongoing contact with the children. They organize enrichment programs, hikes and other leisure activities, devoting much of their free time to this important project.
ICL operates an educational program at the daycare centers and “warm homes”, designed to empower children and improve their self-image.
Activities are offered also to high school female students through the “warm homes” program – therapeutic framework designed for youth aged 13 to 18, and particularly for young girls at risk and distress. The “warm homes” provides a social framework during the afternoon hours, designed to achieve and social, educational and therapeutic objectives. ICL funds various activities and the acquisition of required equipment, and its volunteers organize enrichment projects, parties and hikes, as well as special events.
Yated Daycare Center for Children with Down’s Syndrome
About 40 children and youth attend the center located in the Hapoel Beer Sheva building. ICL funds activities at the center and special events that are adapted to the participants’ needs, and are intended to promote and develop their abilities and skills. In addition, ICL volunteers participate in a variety of activities, birthday celebrations and special events for the Jewish Holidays.
‘Tzaad Kadima’- A Step Forward
‘Tzaad Kadima’ (Hebrew – a step forward) is a nonprofit organization that strives to operate programs for education and rehabilitation of children and adults suffering from CP (Cerebral palsy), motor disabilities and development challenges throughout Israel. ICL supports the ongoing activities of Tzaad Kadima.
‘Maslan’ – Assistance Center for Victims of Sexual Abuse in the Negev
The Assistance Center for Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence in the Negev acts to provide assistance, companionship and serve as a source of practical and emotional support to victims and their families. Alongside its assistance to victims, this non-profit organization also works to promote social change by conducting educational, preventative and informative activities throughout the Negev. ICL is the main supporter of the Center’s activities, providing hundreds of thousands of shekels in support every year. In addition, ICL volunteers serve on the non-profit organization’s board of directors and in the emergency call center and provide personal assistance to victims.
Food Parcels for the Holidays
ICL takes care to carry on a long tradition of providing a contribution of food parcels twice a year: on Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) and Passover, to needy families, new immigrants and deprived elderly, throughout communities in the Negev, where many of its employees work. This tradition has been carried out in cooperation with welfare departments at municipal authorities in Southern Israel.
Friends and Volunteers of the Soroka Medical Center
The Soroka Medical Center is the largest medical center in the South, serving all residents of the Negev. ICL contributes an annual donation of one million ILS to the ‘Friends of the Soroka Medical Center’ at an annual fundraising event. In addition, as part of the Lihiyot Me’uravim (Hebrew – be involved) program, ICL employees volunteer at the medical center, ICL funds the employment of employees’ children before their recruitment into the IDF and assists other hospitals in Israel, including the Sheba Medical Center – Tel Hashomer, in a variety of projects.