Yoni:"If you don't do it, who will?"

The Yoni Jesner Foundation has been set up in memory of Yoni Jesner, 19, of Glasgow, Scotland, an inspirational youth leader and role model, who was killed in a suicide bombing on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 19th September 2002.

The Yoni Jesner Awards Scheme honours the efforts of students who complete voluntary community service. It introduces our youth to getting involved in the community and making a real difference to peoples’ lives, and inculcates in them a responsibility at a young age, and an awareness and appreciation of the values Yoni lived by and held so dear.

The Foundation aims to create more young leaders like Yoni, through helping our youth experience first-hand the satisfaction of doing and caring. Our young award winners develop a far greater awareness of the neediness of so many in our community, and continue long after they receive their Yoni Jesner Awards, to care as Yoni did, and to hold a deeply felt responsibility to those less fortunate than themselves.

Yoni knew from a very young age that every little thing you do makes a big difference, and that you have a real effect upon every person you come into contact with, no matter how unimportant or insignificant it may seem at the time.