OUR PROJECTS
We undertake a range of projects to provide assistance to the vulnerable members of our community. Below is a snapshot of our work.
Apprenticeships and job placements
We endeavour to train and secure persons from the community with long-term employment. We assess potential employees and match their talent to companies and/or employers who we think may be interested in taking on apprenticeships. We continue to support the employee/apprentice in CV writing and job interview skills (where required) and job training and advice when necessary.
In most cases, we also reimburse the employer and partly reimburse the cost of the
apprenticeships. Rarely does this support last more than 3-4 months.
Food bank
The Yom Tov periods (Passover and Sukkoth) are financially demanding periods in the Jewish calendar.
Food and households supplies for large families is a challenging area for many. In the last year alone, we provided for 250 families to purchase a predefined amount of such goods (dependant on family size) at cost price. We arrange this via local wholesalers and/or retailers. Products include Matzos, wine/grape juice and similar items.
Financial assistance
Families with single parents or orphaned children are extremely vulnerable. It is our priority to ensure they are supported emotionally as well as financially. We provide over 60 such families with grants in times of need, such as Yom Tov, family simchos, and summer camp fees for the children.
Kollel – evening educational program
Provision of a scholarship fund for a small number of outstanding rabbinical students with promising prospects of future study-related careers, such as Rabbis, Rabbinical judges or Talmud-teacher.
The participants are part of a group of 40 people who study for 3 hours every evening.
During the course of 2020, approximately 20 outstanding graduates are preparing to take Semicha assessments.
Therapy – “Heal the Child”
Many children face behavioural and emotional disorders such as ADHD, dyslexia, and concentration difficulties.
Many parents cannot afford specialist therapy or to wait approximately two years for NHS treatment, by which time the problems become more serious and difficult to treat.
In addition to this, the therapy has best results when applied in a culturally sensitive environment, especially when dealing with children and young adults. EHT therefore saw the need for localised professional intervention to help these children.
“Heal the Child” is based on a program by Jon Bredal MA. The program includes:
1) integrating primitive reflexes
2) healing play
3) rhythmic movement
4) repatterning
We have a trained therapist whom we sent to the USA to study this very effective method, and training is ongoing to upskill the therapy providers and enhance the service. We have seen amazing results with the children and teens that we have worked with. In the last year alone, over 70 children and young adults have benefited from this very important service.
