While the WUJS interns in Tel-Aviv are primarily focused on enhancing their own resumes, they also find time in their busy schedules to volunteer within the local community. On a recent visit to the Jaffa Institute, the WUJS Intern Tel-Aviv group learned about the multiple programs they provide to underprivileged children in Jaffa, Tel-Aviv, Bat-Yam and Jerusalem including a visit to an after school tutoring facility. Participants were then given the opportunity to pack boxes of food that are then distributed to local needy families every other week.
The Jaffa Institute aims at ending the cycle of poverty in Israel with education and aid. They do this in many ways including making sandwiches for needy children every morning, providing hot meals in the afternoon, offering tutoring and therapy for children at their facilities, teaching and educating mothers to use computers and tele-market for their cause as well as distribute food to the doors of local needy families. It is with the help of volunteers who pack boxes, deliver food and collect donations that the Jaffa Institute is able to ease the hardships on many Israeli lives. Their efforts and the help of others make a big difference in trying to restore the poverty-stricken areas and educate the next generation.
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