The mission of the Spafford Children's Center (SCC) is to bring healing, hope, and prosperity to Palestinian children and their families in Jerusalem and the West Bank by offering programs and services that increase health in mind, body, and spirit. The mission of the American Friends of the Spafford Children's Center Fund (AFSCCF) is to support the SCC by raising funds in the United States. AFSCCF activities are implemented by a volunteer board of directors. AFSCCF pays no staff salaries and no overhead so that all funds, minus direct expenses like printing and postage, can be sent to SCC.
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By Matthew Dayton-Welch & Wendy Whiting Blome | Project Leaders
Growing Up is Hard to Do For Jamal, age 12, going to school has become a fearful process. There are heavily armed police on his walk through the Old City of Jerusalem to school. Mostly they ignore... Read the full report ›By Matthew Dayton-Welch & Wendy Whiting Blome | Project Leaders
The Spafford Children's Center (SCC) is known in East Jerusalem for its expertise in early childhood development (ECD), and its services in response to the effects of trauma on learning. Specialists... Read the full report ›By Matthew Dayton-Welch & Wendy Whiting Blome | Project Leaders
Within the historic stone walls of the Terra Sancta Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem, mothers from the Spafford Children's Center (SCC) met to share their stories and apply their talents to clay... Read the full report ›