The Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Economic Development: The Single Mothers' Catering Project

Bedouin single mothers – widows, divorcees and women whose husbands have taken additional wives and left them and their children without support – from the township of Hura train to work as caterers and establish a catering enterprise. The catering service will provide hot meals for school children as part of the national "hot meal" plan in the primary school system. The Hura catering enterprise will provide 3500 daily meals contracted for by the Hura municipality. During its first three years of operation, this enterprise will be run as a 'public benefit company', after which it will become a cooperative, owned by the women themselves.