A child's day at Chinuch Atzmai isn't just a few hours of learning — it's a complete environment of Torah, warmth, and care, from the bus that picks them up at dawn to the hot lunch they eat at noon to the Rebbi who reads with them at three.
Each one of these programs exists because we asked, "What would prevent a child in Sderot or Tzfat from staying in our school?" — and built it. They aren't add-ons. They are the school.
See a real child's day, hour by hour →
52 Kiruv schools · 7,800 children
Our flagship: Hebrew, Aleph-Beis, Chumash, Mishna, Gemara — alongside a full secular curriculum — taught by 600+ rebbeim and morahs to children whose parents are not yet observant.
Inside our schools →
112 routes · 6:30 AM pickups
Our school buses are the first contact a child has each morning. Many parents work, and many can't drive across town. The bus is non-negotiable.
Bus routes →7,800 meals · daily · mehadrin
For too many of our children, lunch at school is the only full meal they eat all day. We serve a hot, nutritious, mehadrin meal — every child, every day.
The lunch program →After-school · 4–8 PM
When school ends, our 8th-graders walk down the hall to Hemshech: small-group learning with mentor-rebbeim, supper, and a guided path to high school yeshivos that most graduates would never have known existed.
The Hemshech program →
340 children · 12 school sites
Children with learning disabilities, autism, dyslexia, ADHD — children who, in the secular system, would simply be expelled. With us, they have learning specialists, smaller classes, and a Rebbi who knows their name.
Special education →600+ teachers · supported, trained, paid
The Rebbi is the program. We pay our teachers (modestly but reliably), train them, give them rebbi-mentors, and stand with them — because the kid in the front row is watching them.
Our teachers →Quiet, dignified, off-the-record
When a parent loses their job. When a family can't afford shoes for the new zman. When there's no money for medicine. Our welfare fund steps in — silently, with dignity, and without paperwork. Always with the child still in school.
The welfare fund →
3 active builds · 2026
Building new classrooms, renovating old ones, putting up bomb shelters in the South. The least glamorous of our programs and one of the most consequential.
Active builds →Every program runs in every region — every child, no matter how far north or south, gets the bus, the lunch, the rebbi, and the welfare safety net.
If a particular program speaks to you — the bus, the lunch, a rebbi's salary, the welfare fund — you can earmark your sponsorship to it specifically. We'll send you direct updates from the team running it.