Friends of Yemin Orde Releases New Video About Israel's At-Risk Children

Online, October 3, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Friends of Yemin Orde Launches New Video with Personal Stories of Israel's At-Risk Children

Friends of Yemin Orde released a new video with personal accounts of the heartbreaking stories of the at-risk immigrant children at Yemin Orde Youth Village, a home and school in Israel for youth whose formerly troubled lives are transformed through compassionate guidance and quality education. The video showcases the stunning beauty of Yemin Orde, located in the Carmel Forest region of northern Israel, and details how this serene environment offers the children a restorative setting to help them develop into Israel's next generation of leaders. "Discover Yemin Orde: A Home. A Family. Forever." is found at www.yeminorde.org or on YouTube. Friends of Yemin Orde is the U.S. based fundraising arm of Yemin Orde Youth Village and Yemin Orde Educational Initiatives (YOEI).

Yemin Orde Youth Village is a home, safe haven and school to hundreds of Israel's traumatized children from all over the world; YOEI provides the blueprint to expand the circle of care to thousands more children in other youth villages and schools throughout Israel. For more information, email info@yeminorde.org or call 202.237.0296.

The new video was produced by Righteous Pictures, a New York-based production company that specializes in socially driven documentary films, and underwritten by a group of generous supporters to Yemin Orde.

Today, there are an estimated 360,000 children at-risk in Israel: at risk of dropping out, of homelessness, of severe poverty and of becoming victims of violence. The children who graduate Yemin Orde's excellent high school become community leaders, military leaders, lawyers, doctors, educators and more. A 2007 Haifa University study on Yemin Orde found that 90 percent of its graduates were satisfied and content with their lives.