When you enter the courtyard of the Zion Orphanage and listen carefully you will hear sounds that are usually only heard either in a zoo or out in the wilderness. The noise of animals coming from the roof of the Zion Orphanage is where the animals live and are part of our animal-assisted therapy. Pictured is our therapist Yishai Blumental, head of the Jerusalem branch of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, with one of our animals on his back call a Coati (of the raccoon family). Click on the image to enlarge.

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