Being Healthy is Worth Celebrating!

Beit Uri is home for a diverse community with physical and severe mental disabilities, complicated by advancing age and degenerative conditions. The village, a ‘home for life’, provides a curative surrounding offering a Ministry of Education-supported school, rehabilitation arts and crafts workshops for adults and a wide variety of afternoon therapeutic activities including horse-riding in a local stables and multiple outside sports and fitness sessions in the village.

 Hydrotherapy in a nearby pool is particularly beneficial for the developmentally challenged population where water therapy helps improve stability and communication skills while building up body strength and as a result effects self- awareness and self-confidence.

 For many of the adult residents once or twice a week sports activities is not sufficient. Frequent fitness-related activities have been recommended to deal with various health and weight issues - overweight is a genetic problem for many adult residents. A supervised, well-equipped fitness room is therefore open to groups on a daily basis.

All these activities are donor supported and with your help the entire Beit Uri community can stay healthy and fit.

                                                 Thank you for your care and support !.

Beit Uri’s in-house bakery workshop meets 5 times a week with over a dozen residents. The cottage industry produces 15 different types sourdough breads (with no added preservatives.) Over 100 clients - neighburs, Beit Uri parents, staff and visitors collect weekly orders and have become enthusiastic Beit Uri bread consumers. In addition special events like weddings and private events have placed orders for 200 loaves -the production of which involves a lot more residents and volunteers living in Beit Uri.

Kiril - as well as being part of the production line, is in charge of stacking and unloading the dish washer, he switches the ovens on and off and his ability to take on responsibilities has enabled him to make sure that all the correct quantities of flour, salt, olive oil are added.

Nir - excels in weighing the ingredients and has learnt how to reset the scales and is responsible for cleaning the working areas.

Irit - so proud to put on her work gloves and baking uniform and is an expert egg cracker and also removes the loaves from the oven.

Marcelle - mastered the cutting and rolling of dough balls, loves to plait the challah loaves and is the ever smiling waitress and saleslady inquiring if the breads are tasty and good.

        Your generosity through GlobalGiving has enabled this enterprise to succeed. 

                 Thank You from the Beit Uri community and Happy New Year ! 

As the new school year kicks off, Beit Uri’s school for 42 residential and external students aged 6-21 welcomed two severely autistic newcomers straight from the Ukrainian warzone. Individual therapeutic programs have been drawn up for each child, including sand and foam therapy to ease trauma-related and anxiety issues, horse riding therapy to restore confidence and pet therapy to learn nurturing and kindness to others.

With the help of Beit Uri’s multi-lingual staff, Ukrainian-speaking personnel are helping the two 7 year old newcomers find their way in a new country and new setting.

For the adult members, all of whom are employed in cottage industry workshops, a new 2^nd hand clothing shop has opened enabling small groups of residents to be taught folding, sorting and stacking techniques, processing (donated) clothing requests from all 9 residential houses, as well as helping serve staff members who can buy for a nominal sum from the rails of donated clothing.  

The diverse therapeutic programs for all the 118 residents can continue as a result of donations received by our generous GlobalGiving friends and we thank you for your continued help, interest and support.

Over 70 adult members of the Beit Uri village are busy creating woven, woolen, wooden items, mosaic and ceramic wall hangings, recycled paperware, bakeries and candle table pieces for the first arts and crafts bazaar in over two years !

Gatherings are once more permitted and with almost the entire village recovered from Covid - the 15 workshops are once again buzzing with creative enthusiasm. 

Eldar - blind and deaf uses his sense of smell and feel to weave splendid, professional baskets and trays  - each of which is snapped up by the many craft shoppers. 

Hezi, in his 40's has spent most of his life in Beit Uri and has become a craftsman of many trades. Despite visual impairment and complex behaviour issues, his professional skills enable him to be busy making ceramic plant holders, colourful mobiles and mosaic-covered mirrors and table tops. 

Yair, works hand-in-hand with one of the 55 Israeli moslem staff members who make up over a quarter of the professionals employed in this multi-faceted community. 

Beit Uri situated in a neighborhood called Givat Hamoreh - The Hill of Learning in the north of Israel, takes pride in a special atmosphere of harmonious living and working together in a region that could well look at this hill of learning as an inspiration.

Thanks to GlobalGiving donors creativity and ability continue to shine in this unique home for special people. 

Since the summer, Beit Uri residents have taken to climbing to great heights with the help of 'Etgarim-Challenges"  Association for the Disabled.  Outdoor activities and educational programs have opened up a world of adventure and excitement to the 118 residents -  both children and adults -  living in the village. 

Residents can be found climbing, swinging from trees, overcoming their anxieties harnesssed and supervised with equipment freeing them from the complexities of wheelchair constraints, visually impaired accessories and mobility walkers.

Many residents during the corona restrictions have spread their wings and enjoyed the benefits of outside activities providing enjoyment at the same time as exercising their bodies. 

Thank you all for supporting this unique and important program, helping  the residents stay healthy and happy ! 

      Wishing all Beit Uri's friends a Happy and Healthy 2022 !