EMERGENCY SHELTER
needed for students to return to school

Can you help?

I am writing to ask for your help for a vital and urgent project at Mar Elias (MEEI).

Administrators are deeply committed to ensuring the students and staff’s safety and well-being. Still, unfortunately, they have realized recently that the safe spaces at school do not meet the requirements of the Security Department at the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education experts are visiting all schools in Israel to see if these schools can reopen soon. The existing student shelters at all MEEI schools require substantial structural improvement and renovation to fulfill their crucial role during emergencies better.

This ambitious project requires significant financial support
to the tune of $130,000 to become a reality.

We need your help now to get the students back in the classroom.

A very generous donor made a $40,000 matching grant for the shelters.

With this help we reached the $80,000 and are now up to $113,000 raised!

Donate now to help kids get back to school in a safer place! We are almost there!

For now, the Ministry of Education has allowed MEEI to bring back a limited number of students this week. To bring back all students, they must complete all the shelters. We certainly have no wish to keep them at home, they have suffered enough during the pandemic and now face one more round of anxieties and social distancing. People are always indoors, and streets everywhere are empty, awaiting what might occur next.

Please help us get these spaces renovated as soon as possible,

Donate Now - Renovate Emergency Safe Rooms

We are grateful to the many generous donors who supported this effort!