Every year FZY aim to raise £12,000 towards the Ethiopian Barmitzvah Fund and this year is no different. Please make your donation today to help us reach our goal.
Current offline donations for 2009/10:
NMH - £2500
Ketura - £3000
FZY Year Course 09/10 - 1211.35*
Celebrating a Bar and Bat Mitzvah is something we in the may take for granted but this is not the case for Ethiopian children who have recently arrived in . For the past 8 years, UJIA has been providing young Ethiopians with a communal Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremony, bringing joy and enrichment to hundreds of children and their families. The project is unique as it is not just funded by UJIA and FZY, but is created and run by us – together with an Israeli absorption centre – and is pluralist in the way that it brings us all together.
Together we can provide:
- Bar/Bat mitzvah lessons for participants
- Shabbat together promoting spiritual and social bonding
- Organisation and volunteering programme
- Elegant clothes, shoes and jeans for weekdays
- Sets of Talitot and Tefilin for all the boys and candlesticks for all the girls
- Siddurim for all the participants
- Silver necklaces with a Magen David for all the girls
- Three day seminar in Jerusalem
- Transportation to Jerusalem for family members to join in the Simcha together with staff and guards
- Renting the Great Synagogue for the ceremony and lunch
- Band for Simcha dancing
- Spending money for each participant as a gift
- Photographs for all the celebrants and their families
For more information please follow this link http://www.ujia.org/news/1119/ujia-bar-bat-mitzvah-programme-celebrates-record-year/
*Donations being made for the Jerusalem fun run - please donate at http://www.justgiving.com/FZY-year-course
