11 Rivka St.
Jerusalem
Israel
- Youth and education
Hand in Hand was established in 1997 in order to promote Jewish and Arab cooperation in the area of education. Hand in Hand established a model of bilingual, multicultural education in which Jewish, Christian and Moslem children learn together as equals in the same classes. In Hand in Hand, school children are taught to speak, read, and write in both Hebrew and Arabic. The Center’s mission is to establish and promote integrated Jewish-Arab schools across the country and build a new model of peace education, interfaith acceptance and partnership between children, teachers, parents, and the wider community. Ultimately we seek to promote social change and reconciliation on a national level.
Implementing a model of bilingual, multi-ethnic education at the three schools (from kindergarten through high-school), and connecting the communities around the schools by means of a variety of social activities involving students, their parents and siblings, and the wider community.
Hand in Hand will be happy to share its expertise in the field of bilingual, multi-ethnic education and social activities designed to foster tolerance, mutual respect and peaceful co-existence in Israels multiethnic reality.
We would like to use the opportunity to partner with organizations in the region and in Europe which pursue similar goals to ours, and thus contribute to the joint effort of civil society organizations to promote the issues of coexistence, tolerance, ethnic pluralism and democratic values.