Emunah Mother and Daughter Tour 2011

Organised by Emunah Chairman Camille Compton, this year’s Mother and Daughter Tour was a resounding success. 38 mums and daughters (aged 11 – 15) took part in this year’s Tour. Based in Jerusalem, the tour participants enjoyed a packed 5 day itinerary which included sifting through 2000 year old artefacts on an archaeological dig, painting wooden artefacts at Kakadoo, visiting the Michal Negrin factory to see how the jewellery is made and spent a morning learning at the Matan centre in Raanana. They found out what it feels like to be blind by visiting ‘Dialogue in the Dark’ at the children’s museum in Holon and experienced kibbutz life at Ein Shemer. Throughout the tour Jewish heroines were celebrated and a highlight of the trip was the personal account of the life of Esther Callingold, a 23 year old woman from London who died in 1949 in Israel’s War of Indepenence when she was involved in the defence of Jerusalem, which was told to the group by Asher Callingold, Esther’s brother. The mothers and daughters visited two Emunah centres: the Neve Landy Children’s Village in Even Shmuel and the Sarah Herzog Children’s Centre in Afula where the girls on the tour took part in arts and craft activities with the residents of the two homes, while the mums got a chance to see round the centre and to find out more about what Emunah does to help disadvantaged and neglected children.