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Israeli Humanitarian Aid
Thank You!
Your support, toghether with the support of the
Israeli society - thousands of individuals, companies,
foundations, and federations enables us at Latet
to provide hope for a better future for many
impoverished populations and to create a better and
a more just society in Israel.
Israeli Humanitarian Aid
Contact us
44 Hamasger St. P.O.B Tel Aviv 67214, Israel
[email protected] I latet.org.il/english I Tel: 972-3-6833388
Mission Statement
The Initiative for
Nutrition Security
Aid for Life
Mission Statement
Latet (‘to give’) - Israeli Humanitarian Aid, was established in order
to reduce poverty, for the sake of creating a just and better society
by: providing assistance to needy populations on a universal basis,
mobilizing the civil society towards acts of giving kindness and
mutual responsibility and leading change in the national priorities.
Latet Youth
To Give a Future
Quick Facts
95% Of Donations are
from Israel
City Without
Hunger
The leading Humanitarian
Aid NGO in Israel
Advocacy
Over 13,000
Volunteers
286,000 Hours of
Volunteering annually
Received the Seal for
Effectiveness
Full transparency
Overhead 6.5%
Over 1 Million Israelis
contributing
Impacts the Israeli society
for over 17 years
Israeli
Humanitarian
Aid
“Latet provided my family with the food
necessities in time of need. Now we are
finally independent, and even give back to
society by volunteering”
Sara, aid recipient, Jerusalem
The Initiative
for Nutrition Security
Mission Statement
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most
powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of
poison”
Ann Wigmore
The Initiative for
Nutrition Security
Aid for Life
Latet Youth
The Need
One in every five families in Israel (19.4%), one in every four persons
(23.5%) and one in every three children (33.7%) is below the poverty line
(The National Insurance Institute, 2013).
The phenomenon of Nutritional Insecurity is the worst symptom of poverty and
hunger. Its most direct expression is the inability of poor people to purchase of
food products necessary for sustenance.
To Give a Future
City Without
Hunger
Advocacy
The Response
Latet organization, serving as a national umbrella for over 150 local
associations, has developed and implemented an effective model to
increase social return on investment and to provide an effective response
to the acute problem of nutritional insecurity in Israel, by establishing
and maintaining partnerships with Israel’s leading food companies;
salvaging food that would otherwise go to waste; and by motivating the
public to participate in the joint efforts.
Photographer: Ziv Koren
The Impact
Every dollar ($) that Latet had invested in logistical operation, transforms into
9 dollars ($) worth of food distributed.
Providing ongoing support to 220,000 Individuals in over 95 municipalities.
Rescuing over 12.5 million dollars ($) worth of food every year.
Israeli
Humanitarian
Aid
Mission Statement
The Initiative for
Nutrition Security
Aid For Life
“Without dignity, identity is erased”
Laura Hillenbrand
Aid for Life
The Need
Latet Youth
To Give a Future
City Without
Hunger
Advocacy
35 Holocaust survivors die each day, one out of every five Holocaust
survivors was forced to skip meals in the past year, and one out of every
eight survivors does not take the necessary medications because of economic
difficulties. The medical condition of those alive continues to deteriorate and
they suffer from loneliness and isolation in their last years.
Consequently, Every 4th Holocaust survivor lives in poverty (The Foundation
for the Benefit of the Holocaust Victims in Israel, 2014).
The Response
The Aid for Life program provides impoverished Holocaust survivors with
immediate, comprehensive, and respectful holistic aid that targets their
nutritional, medical, physical, social, security, and emotional needs so that
they may live out their days with dignity.
The Impact
1,000 Impoverished Holocaust survivors in Israel receive ongoing
Holistic and Dignifying support.
Each survivor receives a monthly food basket, vouchers for medicine
purchase, regular social visits, holiday celebrations all year long,
emergency aid, free security home renovations, and a ‘hot line’
designed specifically for the survivors acute and immediate needs.
Over 1,200 regular volunteers from the Israeli society.
Israeli
Humanitarian
Aid
“I was not forsaken, not forgotten, after I lost
my entire family in the Holocaust, now I feel
again, Home ”
Ela, Holocaust survivor, Haifa
“I had never considered myself at-risk youth, but now
I understand that I was at risk of not reaching my full
potential, Latet Youth showed me how giving is receiving”
Ron, Latet Youth volunteer, Ashdod
Latet Youth
Mission Statement
“When you learn, teach, when you get, give”
Dr. Maya Angelou
The Need
Approximately 2.5 million youth and children between the ages of
0 and 18 living in Israel today. 885,000 of them come from poverty
stricken households, 350,000 of whom are living at various extreme
levels of risk (The Israel National Council for the Child, 2013)
The Initiative for
Nutrition Security
Aid for Life
Latet Youth
To Give a Future
The Response
A modular three-year educational group-based program, with a focus on
underserved teens from low socio-economic backgrounds .The goal of the
program is to encourage civic participation while fostering volunteerism
and tolerance. Participating teens are encouraged to initiate, develop and
implement hundreds of local, community-based social initiatives that
address community needs.
The program has been recognized as an official youth organization by the
Ministry of Education.
City Without
Hunger
Advocacy
The Impact
Thousands of Israeli Youth, from all sectors of the society, develop
themselves into future Social Leaders.
Hundreds of communities benefit from the local social initiatives.
The youth receive a better opportunity to break out of the cycle of
poverty and to become active and productive members of the society.
Israeli
Humanitarian
Aid
Mission Statement
The Initiative for
Nutrition Security
“I was educated to be a good wife,
not a good businesswomen, Latet Atid
taught its not mutually exclusive”
To Give a Future
Haya, entrepreneur, Beer-Sheva
“The secret to change is to focus all of
your energy not on fighting the old, but on
building the new”
Socrates
Aid for Life
Latet Youth
To Give a Future
City Without
Hunger
Advocacy
The Need
Women encounter much more difficulty when trying to secure employment
than men because of Gender discrimination, tradition of high dependency
on a male income, and different aspects of traditional motherhood.
Many women live below the poverty line, and in most cases potential
entrepreneurs from these disadvantaged populations lack access to initial
capital and professional knowledge.
The Response
The Latet Atid (“To Give a Future”) program provides impoverished female
entrepreneurs a comprehensive support, through: extensive individual and
group business training, personal mentorship from professional counsels,
micro-loans and networking opportunities, as they either open or expand their
own micro-businesses.
The program provides them with the tools, knowledge, and financial resources
required to escape the cycle of poverty and achieve economic independence.
The Impact
Hundreds of impoverished women, from all sectors of the Israeli society
had already received the chance to break out the cycle of poverty and
establish their micro-business.
1000 Households in Israel will be guided to reach financial
independence by the year 2016.
Israeli
Humanitarian
Aid
The labor market will be impacted from the creation of more job
opportunities, it will reduce government spending of over $8.6 million
a year on public welfare benefits and will add over $17.3 million to the
annual GDP.
City without Hunger
“If you can’t feed a hundred people,
then feed just one”
Mother Theresa
Mission Statement
The Initiative for
Nutrition Security
Aid for Life
The Need
Nutritional insecurity is the most severe symptom of poverty: while 23.5%
of Israeli citizens live under the poverty line, 9.9% suffer from severe
nutritional insecurity - 308,000 families, 360,000 children (The National
Insurance Institute, 2013).
The main nutrition of 37% of the impoverished children consists of
bread and spreads alone (Latet, The Alternative Poverty Report, 2013).
Latet Youth
To Give a Future
City Without
Hunger
The Response
Advocacy
The City without Hunger Program is an innovative, ‘game changing’, urbanbased initiative for social change that offers an effective and sustainable
model for combating food insecurity in a defined geographic area. The
program attacks and responds to all aspects and causes of nutritional
insecurity, mobilizes an entire city, while leveraging and utilizing local
resources to the fullest degree possible.
With its success, the sustainable model, now being implemented in the first
city in Israel, will be replicated in other cities across Israel.
The Impact
Eradication of Nutritional Insecurity in every city in which the program is
operating.
“I know now that me and my children
are not alone, together we have a true
chance of having better lives”
Sigal, aid receipient, Bat-Yam
Creating a new social order, through a pro-active approach by the
residents and leaders of the city that take full responsibility for operating
and implementing the program and creating change.
Israeli
Humanitarian
Aid
Mission Statement
The Initiative for
Nutrition Security
Aid for Life
Latet Youth
To Give a Future
“The need for social support measures is
especially acute during deep and extended
economic downturns”
Advocacy
OECD, Society at a Glance 2014
“The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams”
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Need
Israel has the highest poverty rate among countries in the developed
world - nearly two times more at the OECD average.
The rate of poor children in Israel rose by 60% in the last decade; and
72% of the working age poor are actually employed.
The Israeli government lacks a cohesive budgeted plan with long term
goals to reduce poverty levels.
City Without
Hunger
Advocacy
The Response
Latet operates in various ways to bring about policy change in the field
of poverty and social inequality. This is done by raising social awareness
to poverty in Israel, qualitative research, promoting laws, filing appeals in
the Supreme Court, extensive lobbying activities, publishing the Alternative
Poverty Report, reaching the general public to increase civic involvement,
developing models for the reduction of poverty and promoting a social
agenda aimed to reduce inequality and to lobby for it.
The Impact
The problem of poverty became the 1st priority in the public’ opinion.
Over 13,000 Israelis volunteer and contribute 286,000 hours annually
with Latet to create change.
Establishment of a Government Committee for poverty reduction.
Israeli
Humanitarian
Aid