Chantal Caray Center a warm Home in Jerusalem
for local residents

Children’s Care

We work to food insecurity.
Meals served after school everyday.

Education for all

We work for children's social integration
into the Israeli society of the future.

Many activities

To develop full potential every afternoon
and during the school holidays.

Our Activities

You can help lots of children and teens by donating little.

About Us

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A warm home for children and teens

The Chantal Caray Center was built in 2007 from the generous donation of brothers Edgard (z"l) and Jean Zorbibe and with the help of Rabbi Jacky Amar. The Center runs a variety of programs for children and teens in Talpiot, Jerusalem: help with school work, hot meals after school, computer rooms, enrichment activities, performances and sports activities.

Our mission

The Center believes in integrating strong and weak populations, where each population can contribute to the other from its world, whether integration of new immigrants with long-standing residents, or integration of secular and religious youth; we believe in giving an equal opportunity to everyone and that each boy or girl can succeed – as long as we help them to realize their potential. In working with youth, we strive to develop young leadership. We seek to give youth the tools to take responsibility for themselves and for the community they live in, and to turn them into an activist force who create and are civically engaged both where they live as well as more widely.

Because children and teens are exposed to risk behavior in the streets after school and during holidays.

Because of our desire to give teens the tools to cope with the world of work.

We believe in educating teens to social and civil responsibility.

Join Our Mission to Improve the Children destiny in Jerusalem Sensitive Neighborhoods

The story behind the Center

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Chantal Caray Center was built in 2007

Edgard (z"l) and Jean Zorbibe are two brothers who are philanthropists and the former owners and founders of the global chain of stores Lancel. Chantal Caray was a niece who died young after suffering from a long illness. Despite all her suffering, she always had a smile on her face.

Because she loved children

After her death, Edgard (z"l) and Jean decided to establish a philanthropic foundation in her name, which would help at-risk children. They asked Rabbi Amar and his son Shlomi to look for a building in Jerusalem to realize his vision, and with the help of the Jerusalem Municipality they located a site in the Talpiot neighborhood. Since then the Chantal Caray Center has been a warm home for at-risk children and teens from the neighborhood, most of them immigrants from Ethiopia who experience great difficulties in acclimatization.

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