who we are

Torah VeHinouch (Torah & Education) is a Jewish school and kindergarten on the island of Djerba, Tunisia, providing Jewish education in Hebrew to 4 generations of the local, ancient Jewish community.

Torah VeHinouch (TvH) is home to 187 Jewish boys and girls ranging from age 2 to 16 who are taught by ‘home grown’ graduates of the school.

Our guiding principles are to retain the community’s unique, vibrant culture and Torah values whilst advancing the children’s education about the world around them.

Our aim is to provide children with the life skills they need to be successful adults within their future community whether they choose to stay in Djerba or to make Aliya.

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Help our children to live and learnabout the world through the values of the Torah
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WE HAVE HELPED THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN TO HAVE AN EDUCATION

BETTER SALARIES FOR STAFF
Some teachers can no longer afford to teach as salaries have remained static since 2008 and are well below the cost of living.
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NEW FURNITURE, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND BUILDING REPAIRS
The furniture is old and broken and no longer fit for purpose. The teachers photocopy old learning material and glue pagestogether to make their own ‘books’. The buildings are now in serious disrepair.
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TEACHING NEW SKILLS
Introduce new academic and vocational skills including ITand social media, hairdressing, dressmaking, art. All of these will help the overall development of the children and provide skills that can be used to earn a living locally.
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Why we need help

Torah VeHinouch, 77 years old, is now struggling for survival and needs your help. Torah VeHinouch (TvH) is a home to 187 Jewish boys and girls. For the first time it is appealing for desperately needed financial help to survive and to continue the legacy left by its founder David Kidouchim z’’l. We are looking to raise, with your help, £100,000. This money will help improve teacher’s salaries (currently below the standard of living), go towards re-introducing old and developing new vocational courses, buy educational resources and improving the dilapidated buildings.

Up until the early 1940’s, schooling and education had no place in the ancient Jewish community of Djerba. In 1944 a 24 year old young man, by the name of David Kidouchim z”l, self-taught and a passionate believer in education, took on the responsibility to establish a school to teach and educate the girls and boys of, what was then, an illiterate community. Now,more than four generations on, this very special community speak and write perfect Hebrew and are literate in secular and religious subjects.

The many years of success, educating both girls and boys,has always depended on charitable donations which have been eroded due to funding difficulties starting after the 2008 financial crisis. There is no Government funding for Jewish education in Tunisia and the only source of funding is therefore through donations and nominal parental contributions.

If we cannot raise funds the school will be forced to close within the year.

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