Outreach Vans

Faced with the growing population of transient youth, ELEM created a street outreach program----the only one operating in Israel today. Mobile units travel the streets late at night operating in 13 cities nationwide: Kiryat Shemona, Acco, Haifa, Netanya, Holon, Tel Aviv, Ramla, Rehovot, Jerusalem, Sderot, Bat Yam, Kiryat Gat and Beersheva.

The “Children of the Night” vans operate in city back streets where runaway youth congregate. The vans sweep through public parks, beaches, and entertainment centers, abandoned areas and prostitution haunts where poverty-stricken children loiter. Van personnel, professional and volunteers, offer immediate help to homeless and drifting youngsters (last year they made over 30,000 contacts) exposed to all the dangerous elements of a society ready to prey on the helpless.