Na’amat helps maintain day care in Israel

na'amat usaLOS ANGELES (Press Release)—NA’AMAT has sent more than $100,000 to its sister organization in Israel to support caregivers in its 233 Day Care Centers serving 18,000 children there, Elizabeth Raider, National President, NA’AMAT USA, announced Friday, August 1.

“Our NA’AMAT day care centers are operational only if they have suitable ‘safe rooms’, and the required number of caregivers to move the children within seconds,” Raider said. “Additional resources are needed for more caregivers, equipment, supplies, upgrading the construction of safe rooms, and trauma counseling.”

NA’AMAT day care centers located more than 40 kilometers from Gaza are open and functioning according to the Home Front Command instructions.  A few days ago, a rocket fell approximately 300 meters from a NA’AMAT day care center in Kfar Shalem, a neighborhood in Tel Aviv.  Fortunately, all of the children were unhurt as they were in the safe room when it occurred.

In Yerucham, a developing town in the Negev, red alert sirens were heard several times at noon.  Rockets fell all around the area.  More than 70 children and babies in NA’AMAT day care centers were sleeping and caregivers had to wake them and take them into shelters.

NA’AMAT is a Hebrew acronym for Movement of Working Womes and Volunteers

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