How To Help

You can help in the following ways:

Give directly to the organization of your choice.
Help your local Jewish community (synagogue, school, JCC, etc.) form a partnership with an orphanage, school, youth group, congregation, or other community in the former Soviet Union.
If you are a student age 5-17, check out our Team Yeladim page and consider supporting one of the listed organizations as part of your school or bar/bat mitzvah project.
If you're a college student, get involved in Hillel project.
Let people know about these children! Send friends the URL for this site (www.yeladim.org), write an article for your congregation's newsletter, call a reporter for your local Jewish newspaper, ask your local branch of the Jewish Federation what they can do to help, etc.
Adopt a Jewish child! See our Adoption links for details.

Latest news

Jewish Orphans in Ukraine Rejoin Community through JDC's Children's Initiative

It is another snowy Ukrainian afternoon, but 4-year old Yuri is excited. Today is Friday and that means it's time for his weekly field trip to a Hesed Jewish community center in Dnepropetrovsk. Soon, the Hesedmobile van pulls up to the State orphanage where Yuri lives, and along with nearly a dozen other children, he hops on board.

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Jewish Boarding School Announces Enrollment

DONETSK, Ukraine - The Jewish Community of Donetsk has announced the enrollment to the Educational Center "Warm House for Schoolchildren." This boarding school accepts boys and girls aged 7 - 15.

Jewish Community Aids Orphanage

LIPETSK, Russia - Fosterlings from a group run by the Orphanage in the village of Dobroye, located near the border city of Lipetsk, welcomed a visit by Rabbi Shaul Adam, the Chief Rabbi of the region.