Campaign for Refuges and Asylum Seekers
There are 900 single mothers and their young children among 30,000 Eritrean and Darfurian asylum seekers in Israel, survivors of hunger, war and brutal abuse as they crossed the Sinai desert. They, ger, yatom v’almanah/stranger, orphan and widow are the most vulnerable and overlooked of those who live with us. They have no legal status; face daily hostility from many Israelis who demand their forced deportation; struggle, often unsuccessfully, to find work to subsist; and have only minimal, improvised emergency medical care.
As tempting as it may be to turn aside in despair, especially as the Covid-19 pandemic turns us inward, it is far better, exactly now, to garner new hope and support for these single mother families in desparate need of food, diapers and medical care. Such basic subsistence will also help keep these mothers, staring at infants’ hungry mouths, from the clutches of traffickers and pimps.
Your generous contribution will be allocated in total with no deduction for administrative costs, to volunteer-staffed food banks and emergency medical resources for these families.
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ATZUM seeks to extend assistance and protection to tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers who have fled to Israel in the past decade, particularly those from African nations who escaped the threats and privations of state sponsored violence, oppression and civil war. As these refugees have no safe country to which they might today return, ATZUM works to urge the State of Israel to assure their right to remain, to work, and to secure access to health insurance and adequate housing.
