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Jewish Family Outreach Service

The Jewish Family Outreach Service in Minsk is generously supported by The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation and The Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation

General Information

Jewish Family Outreach Service (JFOS) is an agency established by the Minsk Jewish community for providing help and support to Jewish families and children of Belarus. JFOS provides these families with material, medical, psychological, educational and vocational assistance, as well as, special Jewish holiday celebrations and programs. JFOS is located in the Minsk Jewish Campus and works in close partnership with all of its organizations and programs;

Main Goals

• to bring Jewish families and children to the broad context of the Jewish community life;
• to provide support to those families who need help by means of the existing and new programs.

Target Population

The target population of JFOS is all Jewish families and children residing on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

• While being generally aimed to attract and register as great as possible number of Jewish families and children, JFOS primarily focuses its activity on meeting the needs and giving support to those families who are considered as 'families-at-risk' in terms of their social and economic/material conditions;
• JFOS plays a facilitator's role towards the 'families-not-at-risk', advertising and promoting different activities for those families run by the Jewish community organizations. JFOS facilitates a dialogue between children and parents on one side and the community organizations on the other.

Eligibility Criteria

• Families with children aged from 0 to 18 – years – old
• Expecting families
• Orphans and children without parental custody
• Children in custody

Eligible families must demonstrate all the necessary documents verifying the child’s right of return “Hokk Hashvut” (a child’s great-grandmother or a grandfather must be of Jewish origin)

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