ASSAF - Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel
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Mission Statement
Founded in 2007, ASSAF -Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel, is a human rights organization that protects and supports asylum seekers and refugees through psychosocial care and public advocacy. ASSAF’s mission is to promote a socially-just, inclusive society in which refugees and asylum-seekers in Israel live with dignity and security, including possessing legal status and accessing basic human and socioeconomic rights. ASSAF’s activities are rooted in the belief that essential to ensuring a resilient Israel for the future of the Jewish people is promoting a strong democracy through human rights to all that inhabit the country. Thus, serving the most vulnerable refugees, including survivors of torture, human trafficking, and domestic violence, single parent families, those dealing with homelessness, disability, and more, ASSAF is uniquely positioned as a front-line actor in the struggle for refugee rights in Israel. Together with 90 volunteers each year, ASSAF’s team of staff, volunteers, and board members, composed of Israelis and asylum seekers alike serve our community indiscriminately. The presence of asylum seeker in our leadership is a critical component of ASSAF’s programming, as it reflects our core value of advancing human rights for and with the community, based on the notion “nothing about us without us.” Together, we continue to advance democracy and the protection of human rights in Israel, until our services will one day no longer be needed, and asylum seekers will gain the rights they so deeply deserve.
About This Cause
ASSAF works to promote the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in Israel to a life of dignity, security, belonging and equality. Through the various projects it operates, ASSAF provides assistance, accompaniment and micro-advocacy for refugees living in Israel, often to the most vulnerable in the community. ASSAF also advocates in the public sphere for the protection and promotion of refugee rights through research, activity with the Israeli public and with government officials and trough the media.