ESRA’s toy project was started by the late Motti Weiner. Betty Wolfe writes about how it has expanded and it now helps many projects including Migdal Ohr. This organization helps take care of homeless and needy children throughout Israel.

Naomi Meshasha, who is studying law, is one of the students working with ESRA in their Students Build a Neighborhood scheme. She is a role model, tutor and mentor for three 11-year old girls in this underprivileged area in Netanya.

Shevach Mofet is at technical High School in Tel Aviv. Most of the students are from a Russian background, as are a majority of the teachers. Motti Zaslow who volunteers tutoring English cannot speak too highly of the highly motivated students and the teachers who want only the best for them.

Gifted Ethiopian teenagers from Netanya are learning marine biology .They are studying the science of the sea, they collect specimens and examine them in a laboratory – a completely new world for them.

The personal benefits experienced by a volunteer bereavement counselor who took the ESRA course which has given her valuable tools in facing loss and helping others to do so.

What happens to new born infants abandoned by their mothers? Orly Aish writes about an organization, “Hibuk Rishon,” (First Hug), dedicated to finding women volunteers to care for these babies, to give them loving care to help them develop normally.

“Push” is a NPO that offers private lessons to school children whose parents cannot afford this. Push volunteers help the pupils with many subjects in schools all over the country.

You too can volunteer