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Bnei Brak Woman-to-Woman Project
by A. Cohen

The volunteer unit of the Bnei Brak Municipal Department for Social Services has recently launched the Isha Lerei'usoh (Woman to Woman) project to provide young women with support in the areas of home management and child raising. Experienced volunteers willing to guide and serve as role models for young mothers will visit families in need of this service for one or two hours a week. All volunteers will receive professional guidance and support.

Under the slogan, "A bit of light dispels considerable darkness," the Department for Social Services along with community donors and volunteers created this program to bring light, hope and encouragement to families chosen by the Social Services Department.

Department volunteers recently distributed vouchers to needy families enabling them to purchase games and toys for children. The vouchers were donated by Book Store of Bnei Brak. The unit also distributed a variety of attractive gift sets for girls, donated by the Perfect Harmony company, distributor of Velvet skin oil and by the P. Rosenblum cosmetics company.

Festive parties were held in community centers in the Pardes Katz, Neveh Achiezer, Shikun Hei and Shikun Vov neighborhoods, and celebrations were held in the Eishes Chayil center and the center for one-parent families.

In the Yonoson neighborhood, one of the rehabilitation project's oldest neighborhoods, a Yakir Heshechunos ceremony was held for activists and public figures who have contributed to the development of the neighborhood. Attending the event were Bnei Brak Mayor Rabbi Mordechai Karelitz; Deputy Mayor Rabbi Amram Ivgi; Avi Glili Halevi, chairman of the Histadrut in Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak; Moshe Ka'atebi, director of the Pardes Katz and Shikun Hei neighborhood rehabilitation project and other local and municipal officials.

 

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