Healthy emotional development is what Diskin is all about. Therefore, providing clothing for all "our" children is a top priority for us. A huge portion of our budget is dedicated to this project.

And ensuring that the child´s dignity is preserved is a key factor in this project. Because no matter how nice the clothes are, the feeling of being on the receiving end, being a charity recipient, hardly contributes to self-worth. So we at Diskin have devised a system that allows families to "buy" their own new new clothing:

We give the widow vouchers, usable at a number of stores. Mother and children go "shopping." They get new clothes … and they experience the greatest feeling a child can have – the feeling of being just like everyone else! (Only Mom and the shopkeeper know the secret.)

In this way, Diskin provides full sets of everyday and Shabbat clothing for over a thousand orphans, at a cost of hundreds of dollars per child. And we do this twice a year, before the winter and summer seasons – in addition to offering extra assistance each year to dozens of orphans before their weddings, helping them to start off their new, independent lives with confidence and pride.

It´s not only how the clothing is given that makes this program so effective. It´s the style and quality of the clothing as well. The children can choose apparel that´s as fashionable as anything their friends wear, so they feel good in school and comfortable around their classmates. When a child knows he looks good, it gives him that warm, happy feeling of fitting in, and there´s no question that this helps him perform well – in school and in life.

He´s dressed for success.