MACHASEH Machaseh June 2012 Dear Friends and Supporter With this - - PDF document

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Dear Friends and Supporter

MACHASEH

Machaseh June 2012

With this report we would like to say Thank You and to tell you how precious your investment into our ministry is. The following stories tell you how much valuable your intercession and financial support is for those we are committed to serve - those who have no one else to turn

• anymore. Your gifts and prayer

enable them to get a better perspective in life and to find hope in Godʼs grace and help. Machaseh and its staff is committed to help those in need, whose hearts are broken and whose lives are

• shattered. The social welfare

is on its limits and nearly a q u a r t e r o f t h e I s r a e l i population lives under the poverty line. Especially single mothers are affected and ʻfall through the cracksʼ of the social system. They barely are able to care for their children and themselves. Food prices and rents are very high. Because of their poverty and distress they are facing additionally the danger of loosing their children. Instead

• f helping financially, the

government takes out the children from their home and puts them into a boarding school. Machaseh helps families and people in need through

• t h e r a p y a n d p a s t o r a l

counseling

• psychological help
• food and second hand

clothes

• financial support for a certain

time.

• legal and social assistance.

The following cases are some examples of those that are currently in our programs. Thanks so much for your help and prayer support. May God bless you in return! Lena Levin Director

Contact: Shivtei Israel 25 POB 584 Jerusalem, Israel E Mail: machaseh@gmail.com Tel / Fax 00972 (2)6286443 and Mobil 00972(0)504434357

2 Eshel Lev (37 yrs) From Ashes to Beauty

Eshel grew up in an abusive family with a violent father and

• siblings. Violated many times -

sexually abused from age 8 yrs

• n ,

e m o t i o n a l l y a n d psychologically neglected, she left home early at the age of 15 yrs just to find herself in a more hopeless and destructive situation

• n the street.

The abuse and violence continued later in live in marriage and after the divorce with different boy friends. Because of poverty she was not able to take care for the children, who got taken away from her by the government and put into a boarding school. Her life was without real perspective from the beginning and after she lost her children she literally ended up out on the streets again. She did some vocational training in accounting but never really finished her school education or vocational training. This makes it more complicated to take care of herself and the children. Her goal is to get more healing and find inner strength, so that she can get her children back and would be able to take better care of them. She wants to become a good mother and wants to be there for her children. Also she wants to take vocational training to learn a profession. A psychologist from Machaseh makes psychological tests and an

• rientation program with her to

find out her skills. She is receiving now Pastoral Counseling at Machaseh as well as legal and social assistance. She gets also help with food, clothes and rent.

Elad H. From Darkness to Light

Elad is a lovely newly wed young man. He got born into a life with no perspective: His Jewish Orthodox parents got divorced when he was still very young. He and his 3 brothers were given into foster care when his mother remarried because the new stepfather didnʼt want to have the children around. When he was 16 his

• lder brother got a job and took him to

live with him. But they didnʼt managed well and became drug addicts and

• dealer. Their live went downhill. With

the help of a social worker he got into a rehab center and got off the drugs. Then he finished his school education. At the age of 24 he moved together with a girl friend. They lived together for 1 year and made about 40,000 NIS

• f debts. Then the girl left him behind

with all the debts. In one year he managed to pay off his debts - working two jobs and spent as little money as possible. After attending a program how to handle fear, he was able to make a commitment and married one year ago his new girl friend, who suffers of

• epilepsy. He is now in a pre-program

to become a social worker and will go soon to university. Elad says: “Once it was horrible, but little by little Iʼm having a normal life. I thank God for everything he has given me.” The fee for schooling is 15,000 NIS per year, what they don’t have. Their budget is very low and they are short every month about 2,000 NIS. MACHASEH helps

• Financially for Study Fees and

tTansportation

• English Training
• Therapy and Counseling
• Food & Clothes

Machaseh helps with

• Psychological Help
• Vocational Orientation
• Social Assistance
• Legal Assistance
• Pastoral Counseling
• Financial Help for Rent and Bills
• Food and Clothes
• English Training

Eshel Lev (37 yrs) with Saar (10 yrs) and Shalev (9 yrs)

3 Tatjana (42 yrs) Hope Restored

Tatjana grew up in a good Orthodox Christian family. She got married at a young age to a husband who had conflicts with the Mafia in the Ukraine which she was unaware of. Her first children were twins. One of them died and the other one was taken right away after birth as ʻsort of paymentʼ from the hospital to the Mafia. This was one of her biggest traumatic experiences and since then she is suffering of depression and many

• ther post traumatic stress symptoms.

Because of the trouble with the Mafia the family relocated to Israel, where he bought an apartment. He could not manage live and work here, so he left her with three children and a lot of

• debts. She still does not know where

he is. She has no contact to him and so far cannot get any help from him. She got divorced without him being present. She lost also the apartment because she was not able to pay for the mortgage with her salary as a nurse. Most of her income is still to pay back debts and she is not able to take fully care of herself and the children. She started to do further vocational training in reflexology but couldnʼt finish because of lack of finances. At the moment she is facing problems with the local authorities who want to take the children from her and to put them into a boarding

• school. On June 5th is the first hearing

and the final decision will be made in

• August. We are going to make a

contract with the Social Department and will declare that we will support the family to pay rent and bills, so that the children can stay in the family. Machaseh helps with

• Therapy and Pastoral

Counseling

• Legal Assistance
• Social Assistance
• Financial Help for Rent, Bills

and Study Fees for her Vocational Training Xenia 10 yrs Anastasia 14 yrs Wladislav 16 yrs

4 Eteri (35 yrs) In Spite of Everything...

Eteri was born in Georgia and grew up in a Jewish family. She has an MA in Journalistic and was working as a journalist on TV and for magazines. 5 years ago she and her husband, an engineer, made the decision to move to Israel. But he did not like life in Israel and left her with the children behind. So they divorced and he returned to Georgia, what leaves her in the situation to have to care for children

• herself. Since then she single

parent and her life is centered around the children. Because she does not get any

• ther financial support she works

many hours per day as a cleaner. All she wants for the children is to give them the best education as she had it herself. She wants to become a Social Worker and started to learn intensively Hebrew so that she can go to university in the near future. She realized how many people are in trouble and need help, so she is very motivated to help those in need. She does not need counseling because she is a very healthy and content person. We see in her in life values of a real spiritual and mature person, dignity, trust in God and faithfulness to the family. We are helping her with food, clothes and paying for rent and bills.

Machaseh helps with

• Paying for Rent and Bills
• Food and Clothes

Eteri (35 yrs) with Nina (9 yrs) Teena (15 yrs)