Throughout the year FZY undertakes many tzedakah activties, from local old age home visiting to assisting national telethons. In addition to these FZY choses a national project which we regularly support, reviewed annually by our Tzedakah Officers.

UJIA & FZY Working For Ethiopian Children
FZY is currently raising funds for a UJIA project for Ethiopian children who have recently arrived in Israel. All charity raised by FZY this year is going towards giving these under-privileged children the opportunity to have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah in Jerusalem.

The money raised will fund lessons, clothing, a three-day educational summer camp, candlesticks or tefillin and the big day itself at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem.

This tzedakah project is particularly appropriate to FZY since it fulfils all four of FZY’s aims: Tzedakah, Aliya (the children have just moved to Israel from Ethiopia), Tarbut (culture) and Magen (defence of Jewish rights).

In 2002 members of FZY contributed £24,000 to the tzedakah project and we are continuing to raise money to this very worthy cause.

"The funds you raise allow the children and families to benefit from all sorts of educational and extra-curricular programming, helping to make a difficult transition from one culture to another easier"

Meir Paltiel, Ethiopian Absorption Centre

How can you help?
To donate money to the FZY charity, to get hold of a Tzedakah box or if you need to send us contents of your Tzedakah box, please e-mail us at tzedakah@fzy.org.uk.