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

MACHASEH Machaseh June 2012 Dear Friends and Supporter With this report we would like poverty line. Especially single - financial support for a certain to say Thank You and to tell mothers are affected and ʻ fall time. you how precious your through the cracks ʼ of the - legal and social assistance. investment into our ministry is. social system. They barely are able to care for their children The following cases are some The following stories tell you and themselves. Food prices examples of those that are how much valuable your and rents are very high. currently in our programs. intercession and financial Because of their poverty and support is for those we are distress they are facing Thanks so much for your help committed to serve - those additionally the danger of and prayer support. who have no one else to turn loosing their children. Instead anymore. Your gifts and prayer of helping financially, the May God bless enable them to get a better government takes out the you in return! perspective in life and to find children from their home and hope in God ʼ s grace and help. puts them into a boarding Lena Levin school. Director Machaseh and its staff is Contact: committed to help those in Machaseh helps families and Shivtei Israel 25 need, whose hearts are people in need through POB 584 broken and whose lives are - t h e r a p y a n d p a s t o r a l Jerusalem, Israel shattered. The social welfare counseling E Mail: machaseh@gmail.com is on its limits and nearly a - psychological help Tel / Fax 00972 (2)6286443 q u a r t e r o f t h e I s r a e l i - food and second hand and population lives under the clothes 1 Mobil 00972(0)504434357

Elad H. The fee for schooling is 15,000 NIS per year, what they don’t have. Their From Darkness to Light budget is very low and they are short every month about 2,000 NIS. Elad is a lovely newly wed young man. MACHASEH helps He got born into a life with no perspective: His Jewish Orthodox - Financially for Study Fees and parents got divorced when he was still tTansportation very young. He and his 3 brothers - English Training were given into foster care when his - Therapy and Counseling mother remarried because the new - Food & Clothes stepfather didn ʼ t want to have the children around. When he was 16 his older brother got a job and took him to live with him. But they didn ʼ t 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 After attending a program how to Elad says: “Once it was horrible, for 1 year and made about 40,000 NIS handle fear, he was able to make a but little by little I ʼ m having a of debts. Then the girl left him behind commitment and married one year ago normal life. I thank God for with all the debts. In one year he his new girl friend, who suffers of everything he has given me.” managed to pay off his debts - working epilepsy. He is now in a pre-program two jobs and spent as little money as to become a social worker and will go possible. soon to university. Eshel Lev (37 yrs) She did some vocational training in accounting but never From Ashes to Beauty really finished her school education or vocational training. Eshel grew up in an abusive This makes it more complicated to family with a violent father and take care of herself and the siblings. Violated many times - children. sexually abused from age 8 yrs Her goal is to get more o n , e m o t i o n a l l y a n d healing and find inner strength, so psychologically neglected, she left that she can get her children home early at the age of 15 yrs back and would be able to take just to find herself in a more better care of them. She wants to hopeless and destructive situation become a good mother and wants on the street. to be there for her children. Also The abuse and violence Eshel Lev (37 yrs) with Saar (10 yrs) and she wants to take vocational continued later in live in marriage Shalev (9 yrs) training to learn a profession. A and after the divorce with different psychologist from Machaseh boy friends. Because of poverty makes psychological tests and an Machaseh helps with she was not able to take care for orientation program with her to - Psychological Help the children, who got taken away find out her skills. - Vocational Orientation from her by the government and She is receiving now Pastoral - Social Assistance put into a boarding school. Counseling at Machaseh as well - Legal Assistance Her life was without real as legal and social assistance. - Pastoral Counseling perspective from the beginning She gets also help with food, - Financial Help for Rent and Bills and after she lost her children she clothes and rent. - Food and Clothes literally ended up out on the - English Training streets again. 2

Tatjana (42 yrs) Hope Restored Machaseh helps with - Therapy and Pastoral Tatjana grew up in a good Orthodox Counseling Christian family. She got married at a young age to a husband who had - Legal Assistance conflicts with the Mafia in the Ukraine - Social Assistance which she was unaware of. Her first - Financial Help for Rent, Bills children were twins. One of them died and Study Fees for her and the other one was taken right Vocational Training away after birth as ʻ sort of payment ʼ from the hospital to the Mafia. This was one of her biggest traumatic experiences and since then she is suffering of depression and many other 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. August. We are going to make a She started to do further vocational She got divorced without him being contract with the Social Department training in reflexology but couldn ʼ t present. finish because of lack of finances. and will declare that we will support the family to pay rent and bills, so that She lost also the apartment because At the moment she is facing the children can stay in the family. she was not able to pay for the problems with the local authorities mortgage with her salary as a nurse. who want to take the children from her Most of her income is still to pay back and to put them into a boarding debts and she is not able to take fully school. On June 5th is the first hearing care of herself and the children. and the final decision will be made in Anastasia 14 yrs Xenia 10 yrs Wladislav 16 yrs 3

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 other 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 Eteri (35 yrs) with she had it herself. Nina (9 yrs) Teena (15 yrs) She wants to become a Social Worker and started to learn intensively Hebrew so that she can go to university in the near future. Machaseh helps with She realized how many people are in trouble and need help, so she is very motivated to help those in - Paying for Rent and Bills need. - Food and Clothes 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. 4