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Project List
We are looking for sponsors and volunteers for all of our projects. If you are interested in sponsoring a project in honor or memory of a loved one,
or if you would like more information about volunteering for a specific project
please contact us.
The following is a list of current projects that need volunteers:
- Home and hospital visits.
- Emergency teams to help families immediately after terror attacks.
- Manning countrywide telephone hotlines.
- Research and editing of memorial pamphlets and educational materials.
- Organization of memorial ceremonies for victims.
- Funeral arrangements.
- Joining our international information campaign about Palestinian terror.
- Legal action against perpetrators of terror.
- Fundraising projects.
- And much more.
Your ideas are welcome!
Holidays Project:
The Jewish Holidays are sensitive times for families of terror victims when they feel most deeply that their loved one
is missing. Every holiday we try to organize something for the families. Our events give the victims and their families something to look forward to.
Over the High Holidays, food packages were sent to over 400 families.
This Chanukah we organized a full day trip and a dinner in a hotel for 250 people with entertainment.
This year's Tu B'Shevat family gathering will include tree planting for over 200 children.
During Purim we send Mishloach Manot to families costing us
100 shekels per family including delivery and organization.
This year it will cost us $10,000.00 to send the traditional Purim gifts.
Send a Mishloach Manot Holiday Gift Basket to an Israeli Family
Once again this year on Purim, the Terror Victims Association will be sending out hundreds of
Mishloach Manot, holiday gift baskets, to the families of terror victims all over Israel.
Jews the world over can express their solidarity with the Israeli families by sending a
$25 donation for the sponsoring of a Purim gift package.
A Happy Purim Greeting will be enclosed in the basket with sponsor's name and address.
Contributions can also be sent for ½ SHEKEL donations.
Those people who wish to donate funds toward our lawsuit against Arafat in Belgium will be participating in the Mitzvah to "Remember what Amalek did to you."
This Purim, help us turn the tables on our enemies;
and help us transform the darkness and grief of the victimized families "to light, happiness, joy, and honor."
Shirut L'Umi Volunteers:
In the past we have had these wonderful volunteers, teenage girls doing their National Service, working on behalf of our organization.
Unfortunately this year, we could only arrange funding for three girls.
These girls are volunteers and do not get paid for their efforts. However each girl costs our organization six thousand dollars a year,
as we are required to provide them with food, an apartment, insurance, and transportation.
These girls become the life of our organization. In addition to taking care of day to day tasks, each girl has a specific responsibility such as:
1. Visiting and organizing visits to victim's families. (Some of the victims leave behind elderly family members who require daily visits
for they have no one else to visit them...) as well as organizing volunteers to visit the injured in the hospital and in their homes.
2. Providing help, such as cleaning and baby-sitting, for the families of victims who often have to spend many hours in the hospital attending to their loved ones.
3. Organizing social events, holiday parties and trips for the victims families.
4. Meeting with the families of victims to collect stories and pictures of each terror victim, and help them make memorial albums.
Memorials & Funeral Project:
Occasionally the victims of terror attacks do not have a large family or many friends. This is especially true with new immigrants.
We believe that someone who was killed sacrificing his life for the Jewish People should have a big funeral.
Recently the funeral of terror victim Amos Machlouf, took place at midnight and only 50 people showed up!
We believe funeral notices should be put up and cars with loudspeakers should go around drawing people to come to the funeral, even if they don't know the victim.
Drivers and volunteers are needed for this project.
Emergency 24-Hour Hotline
Recently, a 24-hour telephone hotline has been opened to meet the needs of terror victims
The hotline is manned by professional social service workers as well as trained volunteers, and fellow terror victims,
who draw on their own experience and knowledge. Our goal is to open hotlines in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva and Haifa.
To do this we need more telephone lines, more volunteers and more training seminars to prepare a reliable, expert staff.
Parlor Meetings
During the coming months, we will be sending delegations of Israeli terror victims
to the United States for solidarity meetings with American victims of the September 11th terror attack.
The delegation will also meet with Jewish communities and with the media in different
parts of the country.
Anyone who can host a parlor meeting for the delegation and help raise funds
should please contact us at feedback@terrorvictims.com.
Our representative Sheina Berkowitz, TVA fundraising director, will be in the states from mid
January - mid February for consultations. She can be reached on her cell phone at 201-315-2746.
Donations for all the above projects can be sent to our Jerusalem office.
Sponsorship in memory or in honor of a loved one is also available. For more information, please call our Israel office at (02)500-3214.
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