Young British volunteers spend a week at Afula

This year, Emunah launched a new partnership with Bnei Akiva whereby twenty-four 17 year olds volunteered at Emunah’s Sarah Herzog Children’s Centre in Afula for a week over the summer, running activities for the children there, as part of Bnei Akiva’s Kaytana programme.

Rafi Saltman, Bnei Akiva’s Israel Worker, said, “Kaytana is an amazing programme which puts Bnei Akiva’s ideology into practice, by helping Israeli society first-hand where it needs us most. Our Madrichim (leaders) returned inspired, having forged a unique connection with the children at the Emunah Centre”.

Deborah Nathan, Director of British Emunah praised the volunteers, “It is wonderful that young people in the UK can make a real difference in Israel through social action of this kind. The children at our residential centre in Afula come from very troubled backgrounds and they benefitted greatly from the excellent programme that Bnei Akiva organised.  British Emunah looks forward to working in partnership with Bnei Akiva again after the success of this year’s programme.”