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Due to a technical problem: The project to prevent child accidents in the Bedouin sector is in danger of closing Israel today

2021-10-26T16:56:27.034Z


The organization before being responsible for carrying out the project warns that "the injury could lead to loss of life and also harms instructors who work weakened and lose their livelihoods" • CEO Before Silvinger: "Behind the bureaucracy needed for budget approval are children and parents for whom mental supervision


A project of an organization prior to the prevention of child accidents in the Bedouin sector, in collaboration with nine authorities and the Authority for Socio-Economic Development in Bedouin society, is in existential danger.

The situation now is that the project has been stopped since last July, and will close completely.

According to the organization, the children in Bedouin society are at risk of dying from accidents more than any other child in Israel, which can be seen in the field in light of the large number of disaster cases in the Bedouin population.

Due to multiple election campaigns, the Bedouin Society for Socio-Economic Development has moved between three ministries within a year, and is currently under the Ministry of Welfare.

Now, due to a technical and bureaucratic problem the project will be closed.

The organization before warning: "The damage to the project could lead to the loss of life and also constitutes damage to instructors who work weakened and lose their livelihoods."

According to the organization, the project was a success.

In the authorities in which he operated, the mortality rate from injuries among children and youth in Bedouin society in the years 2018 to 2020 was 35 percent lower than the rate in the years 2013 to 2015.

In addition, according to the data, there was a particularly significant decrease among adolescents aged 17-15 (a decrease of 61%) and among infants aged up to 4 (a decrease of 32%).

And if you convert the numbers to persons, the number of deaths dropped from an average of 24 deaths per year in the years between 2013 and 2015, to an average of 18 deaths per year in the years between 2018 and 2020.

The organization noted that another parameter needs to be taken into account, "this is when the population of children in Bedouin society has increased by 14%."

Orly Silvinger, CEO of the organization Before Child Safety, commented on the expected closure and said: “The Bedouin Child Injury Prevention Program has been operating with great success and has been saving lives for 6 years.

"Despite the good results shown by the reduction in injuries and deaths of children, the data is still difficult."

Illegal Bedouin construction, archive, Photo: Dudu Greenspan

Silvinger added that "no professional body questions the importance, necessity or success of the project - and yet due to a technical detail, the project will be closed and drained from July 2021, although it has a proper budget for 2021. I hope the people of the Ministry of Welfare do their job faithfully "They will remember that behind the bureaucratic procedure needed to approve the project's budget, there are children and parents for whom it is a matter of mental supervision."

"Already at this stage the stopping of the project has the additional significance of the loss of professional manpower of instructors from the Bedouin company who were trained for it," said Silvinger, adding that "in practice they have been unemployed for several months." completely".

The Ministry of Welfare and Social Security commented on the existential danger that hovers over an organization's project before the Bedouin population and said: "The local authorities and the partner government ministries and in front of the Betrem Association, in order to immediately implement the important program for the prevention of child accidents."

Source: israelhayom

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