Your support will ensure that children with special needs get the care they need to live a normal, full life.
Children in Kiryat Arba and Hebron live under constant security threats. This takes a toll on all kids, but for children dealing with trauma or special needs, it’s overwhelming.
Your support for Neve Avraham Child Development Center means that more children can get the treatments they need to overcome these challenges, and that more families can feel secure in the knowledge that their child will developing into a happy, productive adult.
Your contribution will go directly to physical, cognitive, emotional or cultural therapy for a child in need. By supporting this campaign, you’ll help us:
- Treat more children each week with speech, emotional and occupational therapies
- Help dozens of children reach their full potential
- Develop new and innovative programs that improve lives
- Help children of new immigrant families overcome language and cultural barriers
- Improve the lives of kids dealing with trauma from the uneasy security situation
- Enhance family and community relationships through facilitated parent-child time
Help a Child with Special Needs Live Up to Their Full Potential
(All donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.)
Currently, our center treats 80 children each week, but demand for our services is growing, and so is our waiting list. That’s why we need your help now. Children aren’t equipped to deal these issues on their own. They need our help, and that means we need yours.
Our Impact: Noa
At two-and-a-half, Noa only couldn’t speak. She was clearly intelligent, but she had a severe language delay. Her parents brought her to Neve Avraham for treatment, and through intense therapy, she began to acquire language.
When she went to pre-kindergarten, her teachers identified motor skill difficulties, and Neve Avraham began providing her with occupational therapy while continuing her speech sessions. She had trouble with her fine motor skills like using scissors and holding pencils. Her parents faced the real possibility that Noa would have to go to a school for children with special needs for kindergarten.
But they didn’t give up, and neither did we. Noa worked hard. So did her parents and the team at Neve Avraham. She spent three years in intensive therapy that included daily homework facilitated by her parents.
And it all paid off when Noa prepared to enter first grade. She could already write her letters and numbers neatly, and her teachers considered her advanced – for a regular class!
What We Do
In an area plagued by constant security threats, children with special needs often can’t access the kind of care they need. Your support for Neve Avraham Child Development Center will help solve this crippling problem.
Nearly 38 years ago, Chaviva and Moshe Tzahor adopted a baby girl with brain damage. Living in the Kiryat Arba-Hebron area, they simply didn’t have access to the infrastructure they needed to ensure she would thrive. Chaviva made the arduous commute to Jerusalem to get her the help she needed, but the demanding travel schedule became impossible when security threats became too great.
Chaviva and Moshe set out to solve this problem, and in 1989, they launched the Neve Avraham Child Development Center to help as many families like theirs as possible.
Who We Help
By supporting Neve Avraham, you’re ensuring that each child receives the treatment he or she needs. We provide a wide range of therapies focused on helping children lead full, productive, fulfilling lives.
Your support will help kids get occupational, speech and physical therapy, of course, but it will also help with emotional needs by enabling us to offer more art, movement and animal-assisted treatments. We’re constantly evaluating their progress, supporting them as they build an understanding of the world around them and teaching them the life skills they’ll need as they grow.
By supporting Neve Avraham, you’ll help parents, too. Our programs guide them through some of the struggles they face and help them understand what their children need.
