See Marilyn's latest NEWSLETTER where she reports on our projects, including the Neve Yosef Centre in Haifa. She quotes Hibaat, one of the teachers, who says: 'We cherish and appreciate the significant support you provide to the learning centre and students.' To all our students and staff in our Talia Trust projects as well as our loyal supporters who enable our successes for children who need this vital support, we wish you chag Shavuot sameach.

Our volunteer has made her regular 3 monthly visit to the Neve Yosef Centre in Haifa to discuss the Talia Trust project with the teachers. There are 2 small groups of children who meet for an hour twice a week after their day in their local primary schools. One of the teachers, Sarah, commented that despite the prolonged break because of the war situation, she felt the children had not gone backwards (which is often the case) but returned at the same level as before. There is

We have asked our projects how they are getting on in the current situation. Maayan, the counsellor at Shirat HaYam school in Kiryat Yam writes: 'Returning to the frameworks brings with it great relief, along with the need to process and adapt. The students were very happy to return to school, we see that the consistency of the programme is an anchor of stability for them. They need these sessions now more than ever to fill gaps and also to find a place for personal expressio

Click here to play the video. See and hear five children in the Talia Trust Project at Shirat HaYam School in Kiryat Yam talk about their experiences. Then you'll see the group sharing an activity. Finally the staff show their appreciation of the support they are getting from the Talia Trust and you, the donors. Key points from what the children said: First girl: The Talia Trust gave me self-confidence. Second girl: They helped me believe in myself, that I was capable. First

Our volunteers ran last week in the Jerusalem Marathon. They are collecting donations for our Talia Trust projects. Talia Trust is continuing to focus on supporting children with specific learning difficulties who have been traumatized and psychologically damaged as a result of the war raged on all our borders. Children in many families are continuing to face new problems as a result of traumatic family events caused by the war. We are, therefore, being asked to expand our

Great achievements by our volunteers in today's Jerusalem Marathon. They ran to support our projects to help children with specific learning difficulties get the help they need especially with the added continuing traumas of recent times. DONATE NOW

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Read our Pesach Newsletter here. This week the 2026 / 5786 Pesach school break begins but school-children, parents and teachers are longing for the day that school will resume in a regular way, meeting in classrooms. Meanwhile we send hopes and wishes for a Happy Pesach holiday, when Israeli children can again play freely outdoors and meet up with their friends. When that happens we will fund additional hours to make up the hours that children in our projects will urgently

Here you can see Urit Harari, the teacher of English at Shaar HaNegev Psychological Services, describe first in Hebrew THEN IN ENGLISH the challenges of the children in learning and how the individual work helps them. She introduces herself and says in Hebrew: 'I realized that I want to work with children and in education and that English is the most important thing. This is a skill that is acquired by remedial teaching in English How is it really possible that the children

A new message from Keren Saar, the coordinator at Shaar HaNegev Psychological Services to you, their supporters. Keren says: 'The Adaptive Leaning Centre in the Shaar HaNegev Psychological Services Centre help more than 50 students every week. These are students who have experienced so many gaps - from the Corona years; from the Iron Swords War; they were evacuated to hotels. And even now we try to get them back to normal. Once again war with Iran. All your support and assist

As the war continues and before schools could return to their buildings, Dorit who teaches the Talia Trust project at Givat Gonen Forest School in Jerusalem, writes: 'I can't believe it... Back to zoom ... But I really enjoy it and all the kids participated.' Our March Newsletter is now available. Click here to read it on this website. If you want to have the Newsletter delivered directly to your email address, follow the instructions on the Newsletters page .

Here's the translation of the message that you can see below that the staff at Shirat HaYam School wrote with the plants they gifted in appreciation to Marilyn, Maurice, Lynne and Linda Y. In honour of Talia Trust and dear Marilyn and Maurice. We want to stop for a moment, and say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you for bravely partnering us in building the future of our school's students. By donating to remedial teaching groups you give them the tools to grow

Last week our volunteers met the principal and counsellor at Shirat Yam school in Kiryat Yam to discuss our projects there. They were presented with plants in appreciation of the help their students are getting through the Talia Trust. Watch this space for more news, video and images about how the children receiving help through our support. Lynne Toubkin and Linda Yama from Talia Trust with Principal Avner and Counsellor Maayan

Support the Talia Trust in the Jerusalem Marathon 2026. You can choose your race: Full Marathon (42.2 km) Half Marathon (21.1 km) 10 km 5 km Family race (1.7 km) Community Race (800 m) OR if you can't run, please DONATE NOW. Full details NOW available. Click the link on the Jerusalem Marathon 2026 page

How can you support our Jerusalem Marathon 2026 campaign? Follow our website where details will be coming SOON! Soon we'll be making the new Jerusalem Marathon 2026 page LIVE. You'll see our aims and images from projects and past races . You'll be able to DONATE directly from there.

Who'll be running to support Talia Trust in the Jerusalem Marathon 2026 on 27th March ? Watch this space. . . . Details coming soon.

You can now read our latest Newsletter click here to read the stories in full. Find out - how we deal with emergency requests for help. - how buying your own copy of a new novel about Ethiopian immigrants will contribute to our funds, courtesy of the author Claire Frieze. - and more ...

Here you can see students at Nirim School commemorating the Holocaust at their ceremony in 2025. Talia Trust has supported students at this school for many years.

Many children are still living in trauma from the effects of the war, such as their f athers' prolonged absence in miluim (army reserve duty). Group therapy is possible when the children have shared concerns. Shirat HaYam school in Kiryat Yam has requested an extension to the group therapy programme that we funded last year. The Talia Trust Committee has agreed to extend the Barrie Greenson Memorial Project to include group therapy. We will fund two groups, each with fiv

More fun Chanukah preparations In the visit in December we saw one of our four Talia Trust groups at Shirat HaYam school. All 5 children in this Class 2 group were in attendance. They were very eager to interact with the specialist teacher who had very firm control. You can see in the photos how much the children enjoyed and were engaged in the activities of Chanukah preparations. They got positive feedback by the teacher. Over the four years that Talia Trust has assisted at