WIZO's 50 Years of Fruitful Labors
By a Special Correspondent
A group of women Zionists in
Britain organized the despatch of
medical and social aid to what was
then Palestine. That was in 1920
when WIZO—the Women's Interna-
tional Zionist Organization — was
formed. They collected money, or-
ganized a large-scale informational
campaign and succeeded in send-
ing over a number of medical
teams equipped with the best facili-
ties then available.
From this beginning there has
evolved one of the most remark-
able chapters in the history of vol-
untary humanitarian effort. In 50
years that small kernel of women
visionaries in London has grown
into a world movement embracing
250,000 Jewish women affiliated in
50 federations. Its magnificent
record in the service of humanity
has gained it recognition in the
United Nations where WIZO is a
member of two major non-govern-
mental bodies: UNICEF and
ECOSOC.
It would be difficult to ima-
gine Israel as we know it today
without the ramified activities of
WIZO. When national independ-
ence was won WIZO had a net-
work of institutions and schools
to serve the fledgling state. What
began in the 1920s as an emer-
gency immunization and mater-
nal education campaign had de-
veloped into a model multi-
institutional framework geared
to the needs of Israel's infants
and their parents.
Today, WIZO operates 70 child-
care centers that include di.y
creches for the children of working
mothers, medical centers for a no-
tionally and/or physically handi-
capped children, as well as bahy
homes and nurses training schools.
They are all WIZO supported, but
are geared to the ministry o. edu-
cation's program of preparing chil-
dren for the regular schools. Tens
of thousands of families h ive bene-
fited from these service: and their
lives have been improved through
such facilities.
There have been many heart-
rending milestones. One has only
to recall the faces of the hun-
dreds of thousands of. child sur-
vivors of the Holocaust. Hardly
had hostilities ceased than these
masses of Jewish children began
wandering over ravaged Europe.
They had no homes to go to;
hope had been banished from
their lives. WIZO women went
out to the DP camps to care for
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the unfortunates, and quickly
established and staffed centers
in pre-state Eretz Israel to pro-
vide the little refugees with hope
when they reached the Promised
Land. Under the then existing
immigration laws, the so-called
"illegal immigrants" and their
children were not allowed to
enter Palestine and were sent to
camps in Cyprus or back to the
European graveyards. It was then
that WIZO organized a world-
wide appeal to the conscience of
enlightened mankind to let the
children go. WIZO's institutions,
especially Hadassim and Ahuzat
Yeladim, were founded for chil-
dren rescued from DP camps.
WIZO's tasks cave included care
for disturbed children, for whom
a special home was set up in Haifa
in 1946. This place —the Ahuzat
Yeled Center—has achieved inter-
national reputation as a rehabili-
tation center, unique of its kind.
WIZO volunters went out to the
immigrant villages to help mothers,
usually with very large families,
cope with their new, quite bewilder-
ing environments. These women
learned how to manage the compli-
cations of modern sanitation and
how to prepare nourishing meals
with as-yet mysterious ingredients.
Their children were provided with
day care centers and were given
aid and encouragement that
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enabled them to compete with
luckier
children at school. At the
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same time WIZO set up handicraft
training programs whereby the
County GOP Mum mothers could manage to supple-
ment the family income.
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Their older children are also
catered for in 50 youth clubs
throughout Israel, where teenagers
are kept out of mischief through
supplementary education and rec-
reational facilities.
In the fields of youth care and
maternal welfare, WIZO does not
differentiate between the various
communities. Thus a WIZO youth
club, a women's center and day
creche have been opened in East
Jerusalem. In Haifa, for example,
there is the highly successful Arab
Jewish youth club where young-
sters of both communities meet
daily and play together. Here the
seeds of coexistence and future
peace are being sown; here the
basis of mutual understanding is
being laid.
Richard Friske, veteran of
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10 other candidates for the GOP Jerusalem in November.
nomination for state represent-
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seven-county area, but be doesn't
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post in the November election.
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The Israel Maritime League
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Crew members who are interest-
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New intensified curricula have
established for kinder-
garten and junior high classes.
Further program enrichments
will be included in several other
classes.
There will be a daily and Sun-
day minyan and breakfast at the
school for junior high students.
Akiva is planning its own day
camp for the summer of 1971.
For information, call Rabbi Ger-
ald Werner, principal, 545-1060.
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