Case Study: Tel Aviv Smart City – Health and Wellbeing

“Emergency Buddy” is a program designed to help people immobilized at home, to provide them with medical services, as well as to prevent loneliness. Program volunteers receive free first aid training and certification. He then visits the elderly and homebound once a week to check on their condition and keep them company.

Programs for young people at risk

Tel Aviv-Yafo offers a variety of special programs for children and youth at risk or who have suffered mental, emotional or social trauma, as well as for their parents and other members of their families. Programs include: clubs; “warm houses” and treatment centers; treatment of victims of sexual assault; empowering and supporting immigrant girls; a transitional apartment for young people between the ages of 18 and 25; vocational education for school dropouts; a line of treatment; a 24-hour sexual assault hotline and support and a support and services center for LGBT youth, including a treatment center, shelter, transit apartment, psychological and social support and more.

Volunteering and Social Leadership

The Volunteer Unit matches individuals with unique volunteer opportunities based on their interests, training and skills to improve the quality of life for the city’s needy populations and make Tel Aviv-Yafo a better place for all.

Volunteers can work with youth, single-parent families, immigrants, children and adults with disabilities, people with mental health conditions, veterans and the elderly, Holocaust survivors, and more.