‘All the children contributed with a full heart – it didn’t matter if they were Jewish or Arab,’ says the Israeli teacher heading the collection drive.
Israeli kids donate warm clothes to Syrian refugees
Pounds and pounds of sweaters, coats, blankets and other warming winter gear are on their way to Syrian refugees from a surprising source: a multi-ethnic Israeli high school located on a military base in the north, not far from the Syrian border.
Amal-Shimshon School teacher Eti Cohen tells ISRAEL21c that fellow teacher Hana Perlmutter heard a radio report last week about Human Warmth (Chom Enoshi), an Israeli student effort to collect and donate warm clothing and bedding to women and children refugees from the Syrian civil war that began in March 2011 and has displaced at least 2.5 million Syrian citizens.
Israeli Flying Aid, Hanoar Haoved VeHalomed Youth Movement and Dror Israel are the partners in the Human Warmth humanitarian project. Collection centers have been set up in 14 Israeli cities.
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Perlmutter felt the school should support this effort, even though Syria is an enemy state to Israel, and hundreds of thousands of the refugees have gone to Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey – which have varying levels of diplomatic relations with Israel from zero to cool.
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