Ieladeinu

"Ieladeinu, which in Spanish means" Our Children ", is the program of the Argentine Jewish Community created in order to promote, protect, and restore the rights of children and adolescents, and overcome the trauma they bear, as a result of suffer situations of abuse within their family.

Since its creation in 1999, more than 600 children and adolescents have been cared for. Today, we take care of and protect approximately 200 children in the different intervention modalities: Family Strengthening, Day Centers, Alternative Family-based Care (foster care) and Coexistence Homes.

UNICEF mentioned Ieladeinu as the most innovative project in Latin America (2005). Dr. Jorge Rivera Pizarro, then representative of UNICEF Argentina, declared: "Ieladeinu is not only valuable for the Jewish children it serves, it constitutes a paradigm, a model to follow of how these problems should be addressed."

With the support of this organization, in 2008 the book "Child abuse, the innovative approach of the Ieladeinu Program" was published, which was distributed among professionals and referents on the subject as well as reaching the general public through the most important bookstores. from the country.

In 2016, we also published, together with UNICEF Argentina, We Have Rights: a document on Children's Rights, created by and for Young People.

Ieladeinu is a member of the Network of Homes of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, of the Latin American Network of Foster Care (RELAF), of the National Network of Foster Care, and an advisory member of the Assisted Egress Law project presented in the Chambers of the Congress of the Nation.

Among some of the institutional recognitions, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires declared the Ieladeinu Program of Social Interest, and the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Nation declared it of parliamentary interest of a social nature. "