Homeless Shelters
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General Information
In 1986, the "Gagon" association established the first temporary shelter for those in need. Later, the association merged with the "Lasova" association, and today there are about 15 "Gagon" shelters for street dwellers and homeless people in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Every night, about 200 residents sleep in the various shelters (varies slightly between summer and winter). The shelters are separated for women and men, providing a solution every night for hundreds of street dwellers.
In the photos: The men's canopy, photo credit: Yoav Messer Architects, photo: Amit Gosher
We provide a response 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
Escort by a professional team
Hot shower
Nutritious meals
Clean bed
Safe roof
Lasova Homeless Shelters
Our shelters were established to ensure that the homeless will have a temporary, protected, safe, and respectful roof over their heads.
The arrival of a homeless person at the shelter is the first and crucial step in the process of rehabilitation and return to a normal life.
The shelter offers all essential services: a bed, food, shower, clothes, locked personal lockers, and referral to medical care if necessary.
Each incoming resident undergoes an 'intake' with the shelter team and through the social workers of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, and is accompanied by the Ministry of Social Affairs team.
The rehabilitation process begins.
Each shelter employs a counselor and a parent/guardian who manages the shelter on an ongoing basis.
Are you Homeless? Know your rights:
Rights for the Homeless by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Community Housing Projects
The project consists of "regular" apartments in the community that the association has rented for housing street dwellers who are in advanced stages of rehabilitation, permanent housing for chronic street dwellers, and those with various disabilities.
The residents independently manage the apartment with logistical assistance and a general envelope from the association.
The Shaked Project is a joint project of the Tel Aviv Municipality, the Ministry of Social Affairs, National Insurance, and the LaShova Association for asylum seekers and migrant workers who are not deportable.
Hundreds of homeless people sleep in the shelters every night.
For them, this is their first and only home left.
Help us help them!
"This place saves lives, girls in the rain, in the cold, after rapes, beatings, violence...
who have nowhere to go back, who are on the streets.
They can come here, get a warm bed, get meals, a home."
Osnat, a shelter resident
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Shelters and transitional apartments
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Years of continuous
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Homeless every night
Operated by a professional team of social workers and instructors who guide them on their path to rehabilitation
The largest (and only) framework operating
from 1990 to the present
Those who receive a roof over their head, a clean bed, and a hot shower without question ask.
