Joseph Klarman, head of the Jewish Agency’s Youth Aliya department, announced a $5.9 million program today to help integrate the children of new immigrants and close the social gap for youngsters from underprivileged families. Klarman said the difficulties faced by the children of immigrants from the US in being integrated with other children was often a major reason why families returned to America. He said his department was helping new immigrant families whose children are now taken by youth aliya. He disclosed that about 11 percent of the children of American emigres are at youth aliya institutions.
Klarman said the youth aliya program in 1972 would be devoted to the absorption of 4,600 children from underprivileged families. A $5.9 million investment will be required to build houses, classrooms and boarding houses for them. Klarman said that 2,100 underprivileged children would be sent to youth aliya day schools and another 1,000 would be sent to kibbutzim under his department’s supervision. In addition, 1,500 youngsters will be housed in boarding houses in youth aliya villages, 31 of which are to be constructed within the next two years. He said the Jewish Agency and the Housing Ministry would finance the plan.
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