Venatata NGO is embarking on a national fundraising campaign for the citizens of Sderot. The difficult and continuing situation demands of them enormous resilience and requires significant support. Only a strong community can continue to prosper, function, and guard the wellbeing of the inhabitants.
The association will act on behalf of the citizens of Sderot, by means of a unique and exciting project – a Forest-City project – which brings rehabilitation, healing and social.
The 2023 ‘’Israel Earth Prize” winning association for its work in the field of environmental and social activism, is pledging to work on behalf of the city of Sderot, and to bring rehabilitation and healing to its residents through nature.
To provide immediate emotional, social and environmental support to the city’s residents, to ease their suffering in these and the coming days. To ease their pain, to help them cope with the trauma and with being removed from their homes.
To connect people and communities, to bring man closer to the land. We work from the knowledge that healing a person in crisis, is directly related to healing and rehabilitating the community and environment he is a part of. A person who sees a tree grow, and who takes part in the act of sprouting – grows himself and comes to life.
A beautiful project which brings rehabilitation and healing through nature. Introducing nature into the city to create a green, shaded environment where it is pleasant to live. We will create therapeutic gardens in the schools, where children will undergo trauma-relief programs – to face fears, strengthen the sense of safety and low self-esteem, to provide the children with a sense of success, security, trust, satisfaction and enjoyment. We will establish therapeutic gardens in the city’s rehabilitation center to drive away stress and loneliness, and work for people with special needs who require, especially now, more attention. We will set up community gardens in the hearts of neighborhoods and in apartment buildings for parents and children, we will plant trees in the city’s streets and turn Sderot into a Forest-City.
The gardening approach championed by the association is based on many studies which see a garden as a micro-cosmos of the environment, which reflects all of the person’s individual traits.
Many studies have shown that man’s connection with nature, contact with the soil, vegetation and surrounding wildlife in the green environment is therapeutic.
Furthermore, it has been shown that natural sunlight and the changing seasons have a profound effect on productivity, creativity, wellness, health and even mitigating the effects of attention deficit disorder.
The therapeutic gardening approach has many benefits when working with people in crisis, post-trauma, people who are going through rehabilitative processes and various communities in need of healing and recovery. Therapeutic gardening uses the garden and connection with nature as instruments to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people – on the emotional, cognitive, motor and social levels.
*The donations will be transferred through the “Ventata” association directly to the promotion and implementation of the project, in cooperation with other associations and organizations working for the city.
*The association “Ventata” holds a proper management permit, Midods certificate, Form 46 A and has been engaged in social and environmental activities since 2019.
