New playground for the Keshatot School

Spurred on by our achievements in 2017, in 2018 your continued support and involvement allowed the Fund for Keshatot children to undertake and complete major infrastructure, therapy and smart classroom projects amounting to more than 370,000 NIS [New Israeli Shekels]—all from your donations!

The Fund for Keshatot Children [reg. no. 580540532, recognized charity, clause 46, Israel Income Tax Authority] was established in 2011 by parents of autistic children who study at the Keshatot Center. The Keshatot Center is a multi-regional magnet school serving 89 children age 3 – 13 on the autism spectrum in 2 kindergartens and 11 elementary school classes.

Looking Forward

Together with the Keshatot School, we are planning to convert a large 120 sq. m./1300 sq ft second floor balcony to a climate-controlled, enclosed recreation area. The envisioned new play area will be carpeted with synthetic grass and full of sensory and experiential games and equipment. It will enable the children to play, relax and enjoy their external lessons and recess even during the hot summer days, as well as the few rainy days we get.

Faithful friends and supporters of the Keshatot Center, we hope you share our enthusiasm in this project and will contribute to making this vision a reality. [Estimated cost 300,000 NIS].

Links:

• The Keshatot Children Fund website (English)
• The Keshatot Children Fund on facebook (hebrew)
• The Keshatot Children Fund website (hebrew)

The Fund for Keshatot Children [reg. no. 580540532, recognized charity, clause 46, Israel Income Tax Authority] was established in 2011 by parents of pupils who study at the Keshatot Center in order to support and expand the work of the center. The Keshatot Center is a multi-regional magnet school serving 90 children age 3 – 13 on the autism spectrum in 2 kindergartens and 11 elementary school classes. The fund seeks contributions for complementary para-medical treatments [which are not among the therapies and treatments provided by the Ministry of Education], therapeutic and technological equipment and infrastructure improvement. The fund also organizes enrichment and recreational activities provided by local volunteers. Because the Fund for Keshatot Children is run solely by volunteers, all monies raised go directly towards these activities. For further information about the Fund for Keshatot Children and its activities, please go to http://www.ykeshatot.org.il

As we previoulsy described, we embarked on a adding new therapy rooms and renovating one of the school's roof-tops as a playground. The first mission was sucessfuly acheived during October and we created a new therapy room for the occupational theray sessions. The addition of autistic children to the school (the center has 90 children, when it was built for 60), means that many therapy rooms were converted to class rooms. The fund for the Keshatot Children raised the 80,000nis ($21,500) to build a new and airconditioned therapy room.

We are now planing renovating one of the rooftops to a covered and airconditioned playgroup, we will update are friends as soon as we have the plans.

We would like to acknowledge and thank all of you who support the Fund for Keshatot Children. Your activities and donations have made possible a widening range of projects which help advance the goals of our very special Keshatot Center. The Fund for Keshatot Children is recognized by the Israel Tax Authority, clause 46.

Links:

• The Keshatot Children Fund website (English)
• The Keshatot Children Fund website (hebrew)
• The Keshatot Children Fund on facebook (hebrew)