Summer Relief Programs: Embracing Warmth
Colel Chabad’s summer initiatives support families coping with loss through a retreat for single-parent families, funding for orphans’ weddings, educational scholarships, and summer camp opportunities. Amid escalating tensions in the north, preparations are also underway to distribute emergency food kits to provide essential resources and support during this challenging season.
How You Can Help
Financial Assistance for an Orphan’s Wedding
When a parent is lost, the financial burden falls on the now-widowed parent, who is very often still reeling from medical costs and missing work. For a widow or widower, being financially able to afford even a modest wedding for their child becomes a huge struggle and a significant concern for the child. With one parent missing as they walk down the aisle, these children deserve to have this special day in their lives without the financial burden on their shoulders.
Help a widowed parent marry off their child
I want to partially sponsor a wedding
$875
I want to co-sponsor a wedding
$2,500
I want to fully sponsor a wedding
$5,000
Education Scholarships for Orphan Children
The educational scholarships for children who have lost a parent motivate them to continue their education despite the circumstances. This July, Colel Chabad will host a scholarship award ceremony for children participating in the program based on their marks in progress and learning in the past year.
Sponsor educational scholarships for orphan children
I want to provide one scholarship
$500
I want to provide two scholarships
$1,000
I want to provide three scholarships
$1,500
Summer Retreat for Widows and Orphans
Since October 7, there have been 764 new orphans and 171 widows. To ease the transition for these families, we are hosting 20 new families who have lost their fathers since October, along with 20 families who have been grappling with the loss for longer. This three-day retreat in a fully rented hotel will unite these families to provide comfort and hope as they adjust to their new reality.
Send a single-parent family to a 3-day retreat this summer
I want to co-sponsor a family
$875
I want to sponsor one family
$1,750
I want to sponsor two families
$3,500
Preparations in the North Underway
The escalating situation in the north is potentially putting over a million civilians in harm’s way as the IDF prepares for possible operations. With the project totaling $160,000, Colel Chabad has been working with the municipalities and mayors in the north to arrange 5,000 cases of preliminary food and aid arrangements for schools and shelter locations.
Help secure ICE packages (In Case of Emergency) for families in Israel
I want to help five families in the north
$160
I want to help fifteen families in the north
$480
I want to help thirty families in the north
$960
Camp Scholarships for Orphan Children
For many children in single-parent households, summer camp is a luxury and completely out of the question. Sending close to 700 orphaned children to overnight and day camps this year, many of whom have only recently lost a parent due to Oct 7, will completely transform their summer. This program will allow them to forge lifelong friendships and let them be children again.
Help send a child from a single-parent household to camp this summer
I want to send one child to camp
$500
I want to send two children to camp
$1,000
I want to send five children to camp
$2,500
Summer Camp for Displaced Children
There are close to 70,000 families currently displaced from the north—and the numbers are only rising. As the danger heightens in their homes, many of the fathers away fighting, and money much tighter than usual; they are living in a warzone. For every week a displaced child is able to go to camp, it is another week they are allowed the dignity of their innocent childhood.