Posted on 13/10/2015

A new Krembo Wings centre in Jaffa

The Krembo Wings Jaffa centre, supported by Fondation Dora, will open its doors in early 2016.

The new Krembo Wings branch in Jaffa, in its first year, will provide life-changing extracurricular activities to approximately 80 Jewish and Arab children and youth: 25 members with special needs, 50 volunteer youth counsellors, many of whom are at risk, and 5 “leadership team” members.

Jaffa is a social and cultural suburb of Tel Aviv, home to a heterogeneous population of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. For this community, there are very few opportunities for joint extracurricular activities. Operating a branch in this mixed city will provide meaningful and life changing social activities to Jewish and Arab youth, bringing them together around positive, shared goals.

Krembo Wings is a youth movement in Israel for children and youth with special needs, providing weekly social activities for young people with all types of mental and physical disabilities together with their able-bodied peers. Established in 2002, Krembo Wings currently operates tens of branches across Israel, and welcomes more than 1,000 young people with special needs aged 7 to 21 from all cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds.