b'Giving Kids in Netanya a ChanceThe Netanya Foundation (TNF) raises money for projects that the city of Netanya is unable tofundorisonlyabletopartiallyfund.Wehavefoundthemtobeawonderfulpartner. Depending upon the project, they supervise buying and/or construction. Our first project was the renovation of a moadonit, an after-school daycare club that is a substitute home for 15 children, aged 6-10 years. The children who come to this club are high-risk from severely dysfunctional families and are primarily olim (immigrants to Israel) from Ethiopia and the Former Soviet Union. The children are referred to the clubs by social workers. The moadonit substitutes for the weaknesses of the childrens real homes. The children are given individual attention, help with their homework, enrichment activities, and a hot meal that is often their only meal of the day.Over the last five years we have made grants of almost $200,000 to(i) renovate and equip a room in a Community Center used for adults in the morning, young children after school, and teens at night, (ii) modify an old classroom into a specialized Math Unit that made an entire classroom a Mathematics Learning Center, to buy (iii) computers, (iv) projectors, and (v) outside games (and paid to grade and renovate the backyard) of the Moadonit discussed above (vi) furnishings and equipment for a room used by parents and children where the courts do not allow unsupervised visits of a parent and child, (vii) twice matched a TNF grant to supplyahotmealto30underprivileged children,whospendfourdaysaweekfrom 12:454:00,inaLearningCenter,(viii)an industrialkitcheninacommunitycenterserving kidsfrom4to94,and(ix)leveragedan $18,300 grant six-fold by agreeing to be the last dollars to make a large project for a music room (inanafternooncenterforverypoorEthiopian teens) plus equipment, teaching and other operating expenses for 2 years, (x) the purchase of furniture and equipment for a classroom for high-risk kids so they can get the special attention they need(the city agreed tofund the teachers if HOT furnished the room), (xi) a ceiling crane to move disabled children within their classroom, (xii) funded a small Hebrew tutoring class for Ethiopians who had trouble learning Hebrew making it impossible for them to assimilate into Israeli society, (xiii) buy specialized equipment for a robotics lab in a high school (see picture above) (xiv) a/c unit and furniture for a school library, (xv) computers for a school with predominantly Ethiopian students (xv) book bags and school supplies for children of families on welfare, and much, much more.TNFs current wish-list includes: $3,415asthefinalamountneededtofunda$37,240choirprogramformostly Ethiopian children (aged 6-16)$15,619 for a Judo program at a school that predominantly serves the impoverished Ethiopian population$17,945 for fitness and exercise facility for a school that predominantly serves the impoverished Ethiopian population 29'