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Among Israel’s nearly 800,000 teenagers, 200,000 (25%) are troubled or "at-risk."
Many have severe anxiety, suicidal tendencies and are isolated from society. Those are alarming numbers, especially in a small country where everyone has a vital role to play.
American Friends of ELEM
supports vulnerable and at-risk youth who have fallen through the cracks of society get off the streets and on to life.
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These youth are abused, mired in prostitution and crime, and suffer from the ongoing stress of potential violence. Abandoning school and living in vacant apartments, they are invisible to many people.
ELEM knows how to break through to youth who've left the mainstream and lost faith in their futures. To provide counsel to countries around the globe, The United Nations has given ELEM special consultative status.
