| By JTA | |
| Thursday, 18 February 2010 | |
| JERUSALEM — An Israeli aid agency has established a child education centre in a refugee camp in Haiti. IsraAID partnered with local aid agencies to open the centre in the Petionville Refugee Camp, the largest refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, on the site of a former golf course. The camp has 60,000 Haitians living under the patronage of the American ambassador. The Israeli team already has provided medical post-trauma treatment to thousands of refugees in the camp. The child education centre is operating in tents that had been used for an Israeli field hospital donated by the Israel Defence Forces. Activities such as teaching, music, sports and earthquake readiness training will be held for 250 children at a time. A similar centre is expected to open this week at another refugee site. The IsraAID missions to Haiti are funded by the American Jewish Committee and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, B’nai Brith International and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, as well as a number of other Jewish federations, including Los Angeles, Cleveland, St. Louis, San Francisco, New York and Miami. To date, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto has raised $817,742 through its Haiti Relief Fund. |
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Israel aid group opens child centre in Haiti
The Canadian Jewish News
