Kol Ha-Isha

National Network
Israel
Address

40 King George St.
POB 37157
Jerusalem 91371
ISRAEL
Jerusalem
Israel

Telephone
+972-2-6222591
E-Mail
chemdat.kolhaisha@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
kolishaf@013net.net
Website
http://www.kolhaisha.org.il/
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Gender
  3. Human rights
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Others
General Information
Kol Ha-Isha (KHI) creates programs that empower women to socially, culturally, economically and politically improve their lives and to take on leadership positions.. A grass-root non-profit, KHI operates with 7 permanent staff members and additional volunteers, serving over 1000 women annually. Partnering with foundations overseas as well as in Israel, and having won recognition of its qualitative work from a number of municipal and governmental bodies, KHI runs on an annual budget of approx. 1,200,200 NIS. KHI aims to empower the weakest of Jerusalem's women, focusing on empowering them economically socially and personally.
Mission and Objectives

Kol Ha-Isha was founded in 1994, as a grassroots multi-cultural women’s center that seeks to promote a feminist model for social change and to lay the foundation for social justice and peace. Kol Ha-Isha’s mission is to develop and promote a feminist multicultural model of social change, addressing social inequality, economic distress, power politics, militarism, intolerance and discrimination – and in particular, how these affect women.
Kol Ha-Isha is dedicated to empowering women from different, often marginalized socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, religious affiliations, nationalities and sexual orientations.

Main Projects / Activities

KHI operates the only multicultural women's center in Jerusalem that empowers women holistically, providing them with tools and a safe space from which they can establish their place in civil society. Additional projects include a Counseling, Information and Referral Center, an Employment program for chronically unemployed women, a Community Kitchen project for entrepreneuring women aiming to open a culinary business and a Mentoring Program for women entrepreneurs.
In addition, Kol Ha-Isha operates ANATEA-a Women's Art Gallery, and holds open lectures and discussions for the general public on topics of women's interest (health issues, employee rights, etc.). KHI also takes part in a wide range of public actions to advance women's rights at various levels.

Contact (1) Full Name
Chemdat Aviram-Brandwine
Head of the organisation
Orna Hadar
Contact (2) Full Name
Orna Hadar