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Help change the paradigm
From trauma to resilience
 After twenty years of missile attacks, it’s time to empower Sderot residents.
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Help change the paradigm
From trauma to resilience
 After twenty years of missile attacks, it’s time to empower Sderot residents.
Donate Learn more about the project
Help change the paradigm
From trauma to resilience
 After twenty years of missile attacks, it’s time to empower Sderot residents.
Donate Learn more about the project
Help change the paradigm
From trauma to resilience After twenty years of missile attacks, it’s time to empower Sderot residents.
Donate Learn more about the project
Help change the paradigm
From trauma to resilience After twenty years of missile attacks, it’s time to empower Sderot residents.
Donate Learn more about the project

Help KKL-JNF Prevent the next Forest Fire

Essential therapy to help Sderot residents deal with ongoing trauma

For more than two decades, Sderot residents have been subject to regular missile attacks from the adjacent Gaza Strip. Children flee from playgrounds to saferooms, and families cower in stairwells as rockets explode nearby. The tense security situation has left many residents in a chronic state of trauma, suffering from anxiety, depression, PTSD, insomnia, fear of noise, nightmares, impairment of parental abilities, and bedwetting among children.

Sderot’s Resilience Center aims to change the paradigm from passive to proactive, from trauma to resilience.

At the center, residents receive therapy free of charge, take part in community resilience programs, and prepare for future emergencies. The Center also acts as an “emergency room” for emotional trauma victims after an attack, proactively reaching out to residents in areas where rockets hit and providing first aid emotional support to citizens in need.

To provide additional support to community members, especially those who avoid traditional therapy fearing stigma, the Sderot Animal-assisted Therapy Center was established as part of the Resilience Center. The animal-assisted therapy helps bypass defenses and encourages patients to talk about their emotions without feeling exposed and vulnerable.

The population of Sderot is growing, and the situation remains tense, increasing the demand for the Center’s services.

We need your support to offer the following treatment packages to meet community needs:

  • Individual therapy package: 24 treatment sessions (including animal-assisted therapy) at a cost of 7,200 ILS per individual. Target—150 individuals
  • Family therapy package: 30 treatment sessions, at a cost of 9,000 ILS per family. Target—50 families
  • Soldier therapy package: 10 treatment sessions, at a cost of 6,000 ILS per soldier. Target—30 soldiers
  • Group animal-assisted therapy package for schools: 30 group sessions, at a cost of 9,000 ILS per group. Target—50 groups
  • Individual animal-assisted therapy package for children with special needs: 30 treatment sessions, at a cost of 9,000 ILS per group. Target—25 groups

Purchasing equipment and animals for the Animal Assisted Therapy Center:

  • Habitat development and supplies: 44,000 ILS
  • Furniture and supplies for treatment rooms: 41,400 ILS
  • Animals (birds, goats, chickens, and turtles): 19,000 ILS

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What the experts say

Keren Calffa,

on what her son Imri, age 11
"Before we started therapy [Imri] had a lot of anxiety; and he was very scared of even living in this city…we turned to the Resilience Center…every week he would spend time with the animals [here]. While he was doing that, Ortal the therapist asked him questions and spoke to him. At first, he was very shy and kept things to himself…then he started coming here even on his own and would leave with bags of courage and strength. A few months ago, we had a terrible weekend…rockets non-stop on Friday night….but while he was in the bomb shelter, he was able to gather strength and courage, and to speak the fears that he felt, he was able to voice all of the panic and anxiety he had closed up in his stomach, and it's definitely due to the therapy."

Efrime Rozenfeld,

Animal Therapist at the Sderot Resilience Centre
"We speak with children that don't sleep, won't sleep alone, won't go beyond the 2nd floor alone, don't want to leave their parents…here at the center, we try to help them, to give them the tools to cope with their fears."
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Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) has been developing the land of Israel and strengthening the bond between the Jewish people and its homeland since 1901. KKL-JNF continues to meet the State of Israel’s changing needs and, together with friends like you, create a better Israel through projects in Forestry & Environment, Combating Desertification, Climate Change, Community Development, Water Management, Green Living, Agricultural Research & Development, Education and more. KKL-JNF shares its knowledge and know-how with countries that face resource challenges like those of Israel, helping ensure a greener and healthier world. Now, with your contribution, you can impact Israel’s future.