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Parents work. Some can't drive. Many of our schools are 30 minutes from where the children live. The bus is not a perk — it's the entire reason a child can keep coming back, day after day after day.
When we open a new school in a town like Karmiel or Sderot, the question we ask first isn't who will teach or what we will serve for lunch. It's can we get every child here, on time, every morning, no matter what?
If the answer is no, we don't open. The bus is the load-bearing wall of this entire enterprise. Skip the bus and the program collapses by week three — kids miss days, fall behind, and quietly drift back to whatever school is around the corner.
Across all 22 cities. Every child within 45 minutes of a Chinuch Atzmai school is on a bus by 6:30 AM.
Of our 7,800 students, 94% take a bus to school. The rest walk from neighborhoods within 1 km.
Our longest-serving driver, Avi Shemesh, has driven the same Kiryat Gat route every weekday for nine years.
$180 covers fuel, insurance, and the driver's wages share for one full week of one bus route — about 60 children round-trip, every day.
Sponsor The Buses →All donations are tax-deductible. EIN 13-1953145.