The Books for Israel
Project is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort begun in October 2002
to help
Israel's children and their teachers.
The constant threat of
terror against Israel's civilian population has sapped the economy,
and
funds that used to go to teaching children now have to go to keeping them
from being
hurt or killed.
Since the 2000 Terror War
began, Israel’s teachers and children have suffered the fear
and sense of
isolation that indiscriminate attacks impose.
Books for Israel is a way for
people who care to reach out and help
in a direct, simple way.
As of July 2005, over
41
tons of donated English literature and reference books
have been delivered to
over 182 of Israel's Jewish, Druze, Bedouin, Christian, Bahai,
and Muslim
public schools from book drives launched by concerned synagogues,
churches,
schools, youth groups, community centers, and individual book donors
throughout North America and England.
This Project is not only about books.
It is about standing with Israel’s children and
teachers.
The book drives and book donors working with Books for Israel “adopt”
a
school cluster and work directly with the lead volunteer teacher for that
cluster.
Many of our participants have
become international pen pals, and many of our book
donors have visited their
schools in Israel. The
people-to-people work is as important
as the books--maybe even more important!
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Anyone interested in
joining this effort to support all children in Israel is warmly welcome.
For
more information, please contact B4I's International Volunteer Coordinator,
Rena Cohen.
Books for Israel needs your help – if you can help send books, that is wonderful!!
If you
can help keep our work in Israel going, tax-deductible contributions are
gratefully accepted through the To Save a Life Foundation (TSAL), a
volunteer U.S. 501c3 corporation,
at
http://www.TSAL.org,
or please contact TSAL at
ToSaveALife@hotmail.com.