Outreach Vans

Faced with the growing population of transient youth, ELEM created a street outreach program – the only one operating in Israel today. The Children of the Night vans operate in areas where runaway youth congregate: back streets, public parks, beaches and entertainment centers, abandoned areas and prostitution haunts. Van personnel, both professional and volunteer, offer immediate help to homeless and drifting youngsters exposed to all the dangerous elements of a society ready to prey on the helpless.

Mobile units travel the streets late at night in 13 cities nationwide: Kiryat Shemona, Acco, Haifa, Netanya, Holon, Tel Aviv, Ramla, Rehovot, Jerusalem, Sderot, Bat Yam, Kiryat Gat and Beersheva. Last year they made over 30,000 contacts.