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Why ESRA was formed and what ESRA's aims are :
ESRA is an independent non-profit organisation run by volunteers.

It was started in 1979 by a group of English Speaking residents of Herzliya and Kfar Shmaryahu, primarily to fulfill a social need and to assist their integration into Israeli society.

It soon expanded to include the other Sharon area towns such as Ramat Hasharon, Raanana, Kfar Saba and Hod Hasharon, and over the years has spread to areas wherever the need has arisen to provide a framework for English speaking acitivities in the community.

ESRA's aims are threefold:

1. Helping integration of English speaking families and new immigrants by providing social, cultural, educational and civic activities.

2. Encouraging English speakers to volunteer in the community, thereby helping others and at the same time becoming a useful part of Israeli society.

3. Initiating and running projects in the community via the ESRA Community Fund (E.C.F.) to aid immigrants from distressed countries and other disadvantaged sectors of Israeli society.

ESRA has contact with the other immigrant organisations, and also with the local municipalities and the various government bodies responsible for immigrant absorption and social welfare.

ESRA receives award from the Herzliya Municipality

In 1992 ESRA, and its President and Founder, Merle Guttmann, was a recipient of the President's Award for Volunteering for its contribution to the absorption of immigrants. In 1999 Merle was presented with the Volunteer Award of the Year for outstanding leadership by the National Council for Voluntarism in Israel. ESRA's president has received five additional awards for both her and ESRA's contribution to the community. Many of ESRA's volunteers have also received individual awards from their local municipalities for their volunteering activities in their communities.

Thankyou Letters to Esra
A sample of the many thank you letters to Esra for the help, in the fields of education, health, welfare etc. given to Olim and the needy. www.esra.org.il

EDUCATION
PROJECTS
DONATIONS WELFARE HEALTH
A Scholarship

I would like to thank Esra for the decision to assist Ori T. with the sum of 1000 shekels. I hope that you can assist other such Ethiopian students who are learning in the College of Administration.
Ravit Sharon, Projects Adviser, College
of Administration, Rishon Le Zion

Tuition fees

A few months ago I sent your orga-nization a request to assist me with financing my studies. This week I received a positive reply. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your great help.
Alexander R., Ariel

School payment for my daughter

A week ago I was in a very bad state.
Just now I mana-ged to sort out the payment in my daughter’s school only with the financial help I received from the Esra Community Fund. Many thanks for your help.
Milna G-M

Blessed at Jaffa Techushon
Since my
English is quite poor, excuse
me for the way of writing and for grammar disorder.

You, dear Esra friends, are anonymous
to most of the people you help, so, you can’t get feedback and thanks for the
blessed activities you do in favor of the
weak community members in our society. I don’t know who you are, but I am
very familiar with your help to disabled kids, which takes place in Charner House in Jaffa.
My grand-daughter who participates in the“Techushon”, waits for Tuesdays.
This weekly experience she can’t forget
until the next meeting. On these days
she feels welcomed and beloved by
people who share their love and give
all the best human beings can to teach
and contribute to her slow progress. You people behind the Esra Fund really do a lot, and onbehalf of all kids and their parents I thank you for all you do for their welfare. Thanks to all the dear volunteers who make efforts in purpose to bring joy and relief to our children. God bless you all.
Haim Zehavi, Jaffa
Thank You Esra Community Fund for your donation towards:

1 Paying for my studies at Achva College which enabled me to take the examinations like other students. Orna Z., Hadera

2 The education of Tsadal students. Our school aims at giving an equal opportunity to every child. We sow the seeds to create a new generation of youngsters who care and con-tribute to the State.
Roni Winberg, Director of Middle School Manor Kabri

3 Paying the education fees of Igor B. which will help the family and enable Igor to finish his studies. Sima Benyamini & Ella Zeifman, Kiryat Ata Social Services
Department

4 My graduate studies in the information sciences. I am sure that when I finish my studies, I will improve my professional status and by so doing also contribute to the society. Isabella P.,
Bat Yam

5 Scholarships for students during the war. We also hosted a large number of youth from the north, our own students and their families as well as other families who knocked on our door.
Nahum Katz, Principle of Hadasa Neurim

6. For helping me towards the cost of my studies. It will enable me to realize my dream of studying for a second degree. Anna G., Haifa

7. For your help in paying school fees of 1500 shekels for Irina N.
Sima Benynini + Ella Zeifman, Municipality of Kiryat Gat Social Services Dept.

Thank You EsraCommunity Fund for your donation towards:

1 Helping me get out of the state I was in. I hope that you will continue to exist as there are masses of people like myself who need this minimal help.
Inbal V.

2 The food vouchers helped them immensely especially in view of the hefty expenses they had during the war.
Miriam Baram & Ronit Gal, Kiryat
Ata Social Services Department

3 Helping Pnina N. to enjoy Rosh
Hashanah and to visit her son who was hospitalized in Yellin Hospital in Jerusalem.
Amira Desta, Unit for Ethiopian Immigrants,Afula

We appreciate your help

We thank,
appreciate and admire the coo-peration with Esra. Without the
help of the Esra Community Fund we could not find solutions for our needy population particularly in the light of government financial cuts.
Eva Bar Yoseph, Director of Ashdod Social Services Department

Enormous task to bring up a
child with special needs

We would like to thank the Esra
Community Fund for your gift of 1,000 shekels at Pesach time which helped us very much with the costs of the day.
Thank you for understanding our
plight and the enormous task we have in bringing up a child with special needs and helping him to smile as much as possible and so to be part of the community and society, wanted accepted
by everyone, and helped by the
community.
The parents of Avraham L,
Bnei Brak

A Bed for our Daughter

I would like to thank and com-mend the Esra Community Fund for helping us at a time of crisis and giving us a gene-rous donation for the purchase of a bed for our
daughter. We will always remember your donation and your good heart.
Marina and Dimitri T., Rosh Ha’ayin

In Time of Stress

We sincerely thank the Esra
Community Fund for helping the V.
family in their time of stress.
Sophie Pozner, Social Worker, Children’s
Dept. of Diagnosis and Rehabilitation, Beersheva

Thank You Esra
for a wonderful Rosh Hashanah

Thanks to Esra’s shopping vouchers
I filled up the fridge and freezer. So from the bottom of my heart thank you very much for all your help.
My family and I wish you all a very
happy new year.
H.E., Raanana

Frustrating situations

I would like to thank the Esra
Community Fund for its generous
donation for the purchase of telescopic
glasses for Leah C. As a social worker, I am frequently confronted with
frustrating situations where I cannot help families in need and whose quality of life is affected by lack of Financial
resources. Your help moved me and made me very happy. Melda Shalhev, Social Worker, Regional
Authority Bnei Shimon

Help in purchasing a wheelchair

Thank you for your help in financing
a wheelchair and insert for Yelena M.As there was a big time gap between the date I requested a wheelchair and thedetermination of eligibility by the Ministry of Health, the family was desperate and borrowed moneys from
various sources in order to pur-chase these aids for their daughter.
Shosh Vered, Physiotherapist, Magen School, Beersheva

Paying for an ambulance

I would like to thank the Esra
Community Fund in the name of the G. family for its donation to help with the cost of transportation by ambulance. It
helped a great deal.
Social Services Department, Municipality
of Kiryat Gat

Motorized wheelchair gives greater independence

Thank you Esra Community Fund, from the bottom of our hearts for making it possible for us to purchase
a motorized wheelchair for our daughter Rosanna. This new motorized wheelchair
affords Rosanna greater inde-pendence and allows her to do activities that in the past she needed our help for. This chair has made the intensive treatment
that Rosanna needs easier.
The Yonathanov Family, Tel Aviv

Orthodontic treatment

We at the Orthodontic Department
would like to thank the Esra Community
Fund ourselves and also in the name of our patient, Elinor G., for the 1000 shekel donation which you made that provided the necessary ortho-dontic treatment for Elinor. There are not enough words to express the importance of this subject and when Elinor gains full recovery we
shall send you photographs that document the result of the treatment.
Dr. Alexander Vardimon, Orthodontic
Dept., School of Dentistry, Tel Aviv University

Thank You Esra Community Fund
for your donation towards:

1 The filters for Pedro T.’s
breathing machine.
Ruth Magidi & Sarah Uzan, Welfare & Social Services,Ashdod

2 Purchasing basic and essential
equipment for the family S’s sick son.
Rachel Heller-Eder, Schneider Children’s
Medical Center

Meir Hospital

Meir Hospital would like to thank the Esra Community Fund for thecontinuous assistance given to the children’s section. The toys, blankets and sweaters which you donate help us to give a personal warmth to the children. The smile that each gift brings is worth everything! Debbie Shakedi, in charge of the children’s section, Meir Hospital

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