alaswar institute for cultural and social development
old city 11\242
akka
إسرائيل
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Heritage
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Others
- Research
- Youth and education
ALFinMOTION - برنامج التنقل - الإصدار السادس
ALF Hands-On: Open Call for Participation! - Second Cycle
old city 11\242
akka
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The Bedouin Community
P.O. Box 411
Taibeh City 40400
Israel
Taibeh
إسرائيل
Alkhaimah - the Association for Education & Development was established as a registered, non-profit organization in 2002 by concerned, Bedouin local residents as a response to years of continuous neglect by both the Taibeh Municipality and the Israeli government.
Based on the belief that every child has the right to receive proper education and equal opportunity to develop his or her skills, Alkhaimah is creating viable solutions for advancing the scholastic ability of each student. The organization has reached even further, working to ensure every citizen is granted their legal right to access governmental services such as education, health care and Social Security.
The organization has wide support among the younger generation, and is the only organization with accomplishments in Community Building and in Youth Education in the Bedouin community of Taibeh and other Arab villages in Israel.
Since 2009, Alkhaimah has expanded its activities to include more Arab villages in Israel. Today, Alkhaimah is running projects in various areas of Israel in order to aid children in obtaining proper education and support Community Development.
Education, Advocacy and Women Empowerment
Clemont Ganeau 5, P.O. Box 38817
Jerusalem 91200
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Radion Station
Radio Programmes
C/o Kamel Riyan
Kfar Bara 45863
إسرائيل
Our mission is to case a widespread net – practical tools for democracy and social responsibility – over the factions, leaders, and community members of the Israeli-Arab community. We aim to:
Integrate models for positive social activism.
Dismantle barriers between social factions, local government, and law enforcement.
Emphasize tolerance and moderation in Islamic culture and religion
Objectives: In 2017 we will…
Facilitate 6 community leadership committees.
50 college students will mentor hundreds of youngsters in seven Arab towns.
Deliver values/anti-violence presentations in 100+ schools, community centers, and mosques.
Begin the development of a media campaign that includes video clips and internet campaigns.
Over the past five years we have created cooperative infrastructure among community leadership, “every-day” community members, religious leaders, police forces, schools, and colleges. Our key activities are:
Lay-Leadership. Our successful community leadership model is replicable in every Arab community. The model includes local committees for social change; 15-20 members that unite from their community’s diverse social and rival groups to act for social betterment. Committees lead residents to implement anti-violence programs, cultivate action from municipal and religious leaders, and develop critical collaboration between residents and police departments.
Youth Education. In partnership with Ono College, Arab college students bring anti-violence education into community schools. As volunteer mentors in their home communities, they can speak to the realities of their younger peers. They implement early values education through workshops on tolerance and coexistence for all ages.
Strength in Numbers. We give presentations in Israeli-Arab communities nationwide, for adults and youth. We also unite different communities for joint actions against violence. Neighboring communities combine resources and experience to develop local programs regarding: youth at risk, violence against women, youth crime, clan rivalry and Islamic extremism.
Religious Leadership: We work with local religious leadership to educate about moderation and tolerance in Islam. We encourage leaders to develop the mosque from a place only of prayer to a center that unifies the community for tolerance and positive social values.
Rallying Resources. Arab leaders must realize their potential to drive the movement against violence in their community. Arab Knesset members, religious and social leaders have the ear of their people. Through our guidance, these leaders channel their influence to prevent violence.
After decades of alienation between Israeli law enforcement and Arab communities, we have brought about partnerships between local community leadership and law enforcement. We bring our strongest youth, young people who have achieved higher education, back to their villages for youth mentorship and education. We train professionals, doctors, lawyers, educators, to recognize, respond to, and support victims of violence. We work with Knesset members and participate in law-making sessions. We are also the media voice for anti-violence in Arab society, vocal in print, radio, television and internet media.
P.O.Box 817
Hod Hasharon 45108
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Amichai Organization develops and provides a range of community services for children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities in central Israel, out of the belief that every person has the right to be a full and equal rights member of the community.
The organization works to improve the quality of life of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through a systemic viewpoint which seeks to provide solutions in a variety of fields impacting their lives including the therapeutic, the social, the communal and the public policy fields.
• Amichai is attentive to families – the organization was established by families, and they greatly influence what is being done and on the services being provided.
• Amichai sets a high standard of services – the organization works continuously to enhance the services it provides in the physical aspect, in the quality of the staff and in its treatment quality.
• Amichai works for the promotion of integration of individuals with developmental disabilities within the community – the organization holds workshops and lectures for children, adolescents and adults with the aim of raising awareness to the subject. Moreover, the organization runs many group classes that integrate, in practice, the organization’s service recipients with public school children and adolescents.
The Amichai association develops and provides a wide range of services within the community for children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities, both Jews and Arabs. The Multi-Cultural program creates an opportunity for Jewish and Arab youth, low and average level of disability, to meet.
Together they experience activities that aim to improve their social skills and life talents in rehabilitation and educational aspects. Thus, four groups were composed; therapy through music, therapy through Art, therapy through Theatre and sport activity group. These groups are guided by professional staff members that combine therapeutic processes into their work. The groups are set to advance non verbal communication, emotional and social abilities as part of a wider program. The group members meet twice a week for two and a half hours, in which they use the sport and art global "language" to communicate. The group works on emotional dilemmas and experiences mutual to all children and youth.
In the physical aspect, they work to improve balance, coordination and movement and in the social aspect, they learn how to cooperate within a group context, how to work out joint dilemmas, how to postpone needs (wait for their turn, let their friend cross first, etc). This activity works as a bridge between the different people,
The principal of combining people with special needs into the community is necessary to the progression of equal rights process and the rehabilitation process of people with developmental disabilities. In order to imply this goal Amichai is working intensively with the community and parallel to that, invests much in developing life skills and social abilities among its members.
This investment is meant to enable people with special needs to function to their optimum in the social diversity and within the social changes that take place in a sophisticated, multi-cultural, society. Better the members of Amichai will learn to know the community, with its special characteristics and mentalities, better they will be rehabilitated and integrated within their surroundings, their natural place.
P.O.Box 31221,Jerusalem 91311
Jerusalem
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Ein Gihon is a Non Governmental Organization registered in Israel. It was established in 1998 in Jerusalem by a small group of people with the purpose of fostering cultural and educational activities. Its activities are completely apolitical and opened to people from any race, social background or religion.
The Association works among professionals, university students and youngsters through a series of educational activities such as seminars, workshops, talks and summer camps. Ein Gihon is well aware of the difficult situation that the country faces and of the multiple divisions among the ethnical and religious groups coexisting in Israel. Because of this, all the activities organized by Ein Gihon try to create mutual understanding spaces, under a climate of cooperation, which facilitates working together for a better future.
Ein Gihon’s mission is to help to create a better world through the education of people: men and women full of desires, not only of doing better things but also of improving as human beings.
LBP: Leadership Building Program. Yearly program for developing leadership skills in the participants: Arab boys, both Muslims and Christians, from 15 to 17 years old. The program introduces them into the business world. In 2010-2011 Ein Gihon is running the 2nd edition of the program. In 2009-2010 30 boys participated in the LBP.
HPS: High Performance Study. Yearly program which aims to help High School Arab students from Jerusalem be accepted in prestigious Israeli universities. The program tries to close the gap between the Israeli and Arab educational systems creating equal opportunities for Arab youngsters, thus, helping them to remain in their country and contribute to the development of their community. This program aims at:
i. Helping them develop good habits of studying seriously and efficiently.
ii. Broadening their intellectual formation towards others topics than those strictly required by their curriculum.
BMU: Business Management Updates. One day Seminars on different subjects related to the business world. The Seminars are imparted by prestigious professors of very well known Business Schools. On 2009 the lectures discussed aspects of Human Resources. This program is addressed mainly to Arab professional people, entrepreneurs and businessmen.
Kibbutz Lotan
Kibbutz Lotan 88855
إسرائيل
1. To advance the values of environmental protection through research, education, conservation, experiential activities and examples of sustainable communal living.
2. To support educational and cultural activities which encourage the development of a democratic, pluralistic and environmentally friendly community which serves also as an example for other communities committed to environmental and social sustainability.
1. To advance Reform Zionism from a democratic, pluralistic perspective through engaging in Jewish Zionist education for youth and adults from Israel and the Diaspora, promoting Jewish Zionist culture and engaging in research, education and promotion of Jewish values in a democratic atmosphere.
Partial sponsorship of Kibbutz Lotan’s Center for Creative Ecology in partnership with Kibbutz Lotan. Recent accomplishments include -
1. Development of the Lotan Nature and Migratory Bird Reserve including Hides in Lotan’s bird reserve for observation of migrating birds constructed from recycled and natural materials.
2. Subsidies to enable low-budgeted special groups to particapte in educational programming at the Center. Groups include Beit Hagalgaim – a center for young adults with CP, Beit Dafna – a center for teens with autism, Zaka summer camps for children affected or injured by terror incidents, Beit haShanti – a home for troubled youth in Tel Aviv, and more.
3. Subsidies to enable school and kindergarten groups from the region, Eilat and the rest of Israel participate in the Center’s programming.
4. Sponsoring the Center’s professionals’ work as supervisors and trainers in the building of a health clinic built with alternative building methods at the Bedouin unrecognized village of Wadi-El-Naam. This sponsorship was made at the request of the NGO Butan L’shalom, with whom future projects are being developed.
5. Active engagement in establishing the Israel regional network of the Global Ecovillage Network, and participation in developing the curriculum of Gaia Education Foundation's Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) program. The Center for Creative Ecology was the first to community based organization in the world to teach this program which is now being used worldwide.
5. Reseach and development of energy efficient housing including sucessful fire rating testing of materials (earth plastered straw bales), hand-engineering of earthquake proof house structures, purchase of photovoltaic panels for the Center's EcoCampus and energy monitoring of its performance.
Sponsorship of two long-term educational programs on Kibbutz Lotan:
1. Shnat Sherut - A year of service before the army. 8-15 Israeli high school graduates participate in Lotan's shnat sherut program. The yearlong program, now in its eighteenth year, includes work on Lotan, gemilut hasidim/social justice projects in the greater region, and educational programming based on Lotan's Reform Zionism ideology.
2. Green Apprenticeship Program - An intensive month-long work /study experience, which links together practical skills for environmental sustainabilty along with an engineering methodolgy for developing human habitats while protecting human rights and conservation of natural resources. Participant learn business skills while helping to build and maintain the Center for Creative Ecology, its facilities and educational programs. Practical experience is reinforced by formal studies, a holistic link to permaculture ideas, and an opportunity for participants to share their ideas and past experiences to influence new projects. This unique work / study experience is also interwoven into the daily life of Kibbutz Lotan.
▪ Partial sponsorship of alternative building projects on Kibbutz Lotan via the Center for Creative Ecology, including –
1. A day care center, outdoor play area from recycled materials. The work on the play area was performed by students in the Green Apprentice program.
2. Israel's first recycling center (together with funding from the Environment Ministry and the first bus station constructed from earth plaster and used tires in Israel.
3. The EcoCampus - housing for Green Apprenticeship participants using passive solar, straw-bale, earth plaster building methods integrated with solar power and urban gardening as a living example of energy and resource efficicent housing appropriate for low-income communities in hot, arid regions.
Graduates of the Green Apprenticeship and Year of Service programs, as well as participants in our many workshops and professional training programs, and guests that visit and learn from our ideals and actions, are active in many NGO's. government organization, universities, and community organizations. Many have started their own businesses or have changed existing businesses to become more socially and environmentally sustainable. In particular, the women who have participated in our programs have fed back to us how they were empowered to become leaders in the wokr that they do.
We are a training institute for individuals and groups from Israel and visiting from abroad, in association with the Jewish National Fund, Mashav - Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Arava Institute, AICAT - the Arava International Center for Agricultural Training and many of the community gardens and Eco-Education farms and experience centers in Israel.
We are interesting in widening our reach to participants in neighboring countries and Europe. Funding particpants from abroad creates a unique educational experience focused on global leadership. Israeli particpants in our courses (all taught in English) bond with the foreign nationals as they all become global leaders with compasion and experience in cross-cultural educational experience directed towards networking for a common good. Our experience has shown us that our program graduates have the tools that are necessary for successful development and management of NGO's, health organizations, agriculture and construction/infrastructure development organizations. We are committed to significantly increasing the number taking our programs and hope that ALF and its Network will help us expand our reach.
Executive Director of Fulbright Israel. Prior to joining Fulbright Anat Lapidot-Firilla worked as a Senior research fellow and academic director of the Mediterranean Neighbours Unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Between...
Directrice exécutive de Fulbright Israel. Avant de rejoindre Fulbright, Anat Lapidot-Firilla a travaillé en tant que chercheuse principale et directrice universitaire du département des voisins méditerranéens de l’Institut Van Leer de Jerusalem, et a été enseignante à l'Université hébraïque de...
C/O Barnea
7 Jericho St.
6203513 Tel Aviv
إسرائيل
The "Ani Israeli" association was started with a very specific goal: to campaign against the unequal, discriminating definitions of the Israeli National Populace Registration, and for allowing all Israeli citizens who want it to be registered as Israelis.
* conferences and public panels, discussing the issues of nationality and citizenship;
* meetings for the bringing together of youth from various Israeli social "sectors";
* online publication of reviews and articles.
Our main contributions could be:
* the exchange of knowledge, especially regarding constitutional law, civil and human rights;
* the organisation of joint conferences and publications, together with other associations.
In a manner which is peculiar to Israel, the Israeli State Registrar registers every Israeli citizen according to a so called "Nationality" definition. This definition in fact expresses the person's ethnic and/or religious affiliation. It is marked (partly camouflaged) in the identity cards that every Israeli citizen is obliged by law to carry around at any time in order to make it possible to every official of the sovereign to instantly identify his or her ethnic or religious affiliation. It is accessible to every government official.We consider this discrimination a pivotal Israeli problem and a major block for peace and co-existence in the region. Therefore, we would like to join forces with other like-minded organisations, in the campaign towards its abolition.