Yad Rachel

Yad Rachel is a leading NGO in the development and implementation of educational and therapeutic programs that assist children at risk and their families in Israel to successfully cope with the challenges of life. Yad Rachel was established in the early 1980’s by three educators and social workers who immigrated to Israel from France: Mrs. Micheline Trèves z”l, Mrs. Marlène Grebler z”l and Mrs. Lili Weil who served for many years as president of Yad Rachel. The three women wanted to provide under privileged children from the Katamonim neighbourhood in Jerusalem the same educational opportunities that they would wish for their own children and grandchildren. Yad Rachel began as a small center offering remedial instruction to the neighborhood children and gradually developed into a national network of Educational Therapy and Parent-Child Centers serving 1,800 children and their families. Yad Rachel’s facilities operate in Jerusalem, Lod, Ramle, Bat-Yam, Beitar Illit, and the Regional Councils of Lachish, Shafir, Yoav, Hof Ashkelon, and Gush Etzion. Yad Rachel Educational Therapy Centers are located throughout Israel and provide a safe, enriching and experiential space, where children and their families get individually and professionally tailored educational and psychological therapeutic treatment. In addition, our Parent-Child Centers offer psychological counseling and creative therapy for individuals, parent-child pairs, families and groups to foster the family relationship and allow for a positive impact on the child’s development. As part of our therapeutic education centers and in partnership with local schools and the Ministry of Education, we also operate two literacy programs, one for young children before entering school and one to improve literacy skills of school age children. Our main purpose is to build a leading and innovative educational and therapeutic approach, based on compassion and inclusion, to create the protected, enriching, and experiential and space for children and their families and to implement in them the belief that they’ve got the power to build themselves a better future.