What is Youth Aliyah Child Rescue?

It’s about children in Israel. Children at risk, children who have potential, children who need our help to develop this potential…

Currently there are some 300,000 children in Israel who are considered “at risk” according to the Israeli authorities. Youth Aliyah in Israel takes care of 22,000 children referred to the villages by Social Services. Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, the British organization, helps look after 5 villages with over 2,000 children.

Tal’s Story

Tal is a fourteen year old teenager who lives in Aloney Yitzhak, one of the five Youth Aliyah Villages in Israel supported by Youth Aliyah Child Rescue. ”I was nine when Social Services decided that my mother could no longer cope. I never knew my father, because he left us when we were small, so my mother was alone to bring up six children all under the age of ten. My mum had no support, because we had come from Russia and had no family here in Israel. She became an alcoholic… she would often hit us. Here, in the village, I am able to be a normal boy. I go to school, do my homework, I have friends. I have just now been given the chance to learn the guitar. Last year, I celebrated my Bar Mitzvah…I loved it!”

Youth Aliyah Child Rescue At Work

YACR has many such stories like Tal’s in their files. YACR’s mission, therefore, remains to encourage British Jewry to donate money to support its five villages. The villages provide “total care” to over 2,000 children aged 3-18. They have come from many countries, many cultures, and many speak different languages. Some even come from Darfour. But they are all considered “at risk” due to having suffered from abuse, neglect, poverty, anti-Semitism or lack of education. Our villages provide these children with a home away from home, with a surrogate family, with love, care, an education… and a future.