Kiriat Amal no.1
Kiriat Tivon 3600600
Israel
- Youth and education
Galilee Dreamers is a program that unites Jewish and Arab high school students, teachers, and teachers-in-training from Israel to work towards a shared society. Students work together in their local communities and have the opportunity to travel abroad together in order to understand, accept and share their distinct cultures while learning about others.
Through this empowering program, we aim to spread a message of hope, tolerance, and appreciation for diversity among young minds worldwide. By participating in Galilee Dreamers, students play an active role in shaping a brighter future, where cultural differences are celebrated and cooperation thrives.
To nurture mutual respect and meaningful connections among Jews and Arabs in the Galilee through dialogue, leadership training, and experiential learning, resulting in a long-term commitment to a shared society.
Program Framework
The Galilee Dreamers program is structured as a three-year program. The overall curriculum aims to create personal connections between cultures and narratives, strengthen personal identity through historical knowledge and cultural heritage, and recognize the other's identity and perceptions of history while building a framework of joint living. For two years 10th and 11th grade students participate in monthly activities. They will learn program content while building and strengthening their connections. Zoom meetings will allow for connection between the Jewish and Arab schools in Israel and a third partner high school abroad. In the third year, participants volunteer to lead initiatives in schools and communities.
In the second year, Arab and Jewish 11th graders, all citizens of Israel, travel together and are hosted by their partner community abroad. This experience leads to bonding between the members of the delegation, all of whom are now off the “battlefield,” speaking a foreign language, and learning about a foreign culture. They engage in discussions on the challenges of living in a shared society in a complex global reality. Communication with the host communities who themselves report on benefits received, is facilitated through online learning and social media before and after the trip.
In the third year, the Jewish and Arab 12th graders will voluntarily initiate different leadership projects within their communities in light of the Galilee Dreamers' values and their own experience and insights following their involvement.
We focus on creating dialogue in times of friction between the different communities in the galilee through various pedagogies. we try to create an ecological environment that promotes the ethics of care and peace education.
We involve participation of pre service student teachers as group facilitators
we have the ability to plan an activate large assemblies - memorial and significant events
we have the ability to run inter- faith dialogues
1. to get to know other organisations
2. be part of a comunity that supports our views and missions
3. to learn from other's perspectives
4. to learn about new opportunities and partnerships