ALF Hands-On: Open Call for Participation! - Second Cycle
PO Box 820
Jerusalem
Israel
Mission: to educate and empower tomorrow’s most promising Palestinian and Israeli leaders to take action towards creating positive economic, political, and social impact in the Middle East.
Objectives:
I. Provide MEET participants with high-value technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills.
II. Offer Palestinian and Israeli youth the opportunity to learn and work together on common goals, engage in open and meaningful dialogue, and build long‐lasting personal and professional relationships.
III. Create an active network of future Palestinian and Israeli leaders with a common professional language, respect for one another, and hands-on experience for cooperation.
IV. Empower MEET’s students to become leaders in their communities and undertake initiatives for positive social, political, and economic change.
Working in partnership with MIT since 2004, MEET's goal is to educate and empower the next generation of Israeli and Palestinian young leaders to take action towards creating positive economic, social and political change in the Middle East.
To achieve this goal, MEET has developed a groundbreaking three-year educational excellence program within a globally connected professional network, which provides MEET's high-school students with:
(a) A professional skill-set and network access to be successful and reach positions of impact;
(b) The value base and transforming experience of working together in bi-national teams on pragmatic technology and business projects, while developing mutual trust, a common language and a deeper understanding of the region's challenges.
Graduates of the program stay connected through our active alumni network and are developing entrepreneurial projects incubated at the MEET Venture Lab in Jerusalem, in partnership with Google's Launchpad.
MEET is unique in bringing together Israelis and Palestinians through the common languages of technology and entrepreneurship. With 10 years of experience we have learned many lessons and overcome numerous tense political challenges, lessons that we would be honored to share with the ALF network. We have grown an extensive international network both within the Middle East region and abroad, which can be of great benefit to the ALF network. Our technology and entrepreneurship curriculum is based on experts from MIT, as well as international experts in the field, which can further benefit the ALF network.
To summarize, MEET would love to share our experience, network, and curriculum with others, and build innovative collaborative projects to benefit the region as a whole.
To increase our international network; to inform people, organizations and institutions of the important work MEET is doing in the Middle East; and to partner with other organizations who are interested in helping educate youth on becoming future change makers.
P.O Box 56065
Tel Aviv 6156001
Israel
Our Mission
To revolutionize the approach to health and lifestyle nationwide, in every city and for every individual. To raise awareness, improve understanding about lifestyle choices, and implement concrete programs in government, municipal leadership, schools, and workplaces. To use “health-supportive environments” for long-term, cross-cultural change.
Our Objectives
Focus on health in personal and group environments (schools, workplaces, community centers etc.)
Adaptability to specific high-risk populations for a new nationwide approach to health.
Guidance for government and lay leadership for far-reaching and long-term change.
Awareness campaigns about the need to fight the obesity and diabetes epidemics in Israel.
City Health Culture. We put “healthy lifestyle” on city agendas for the long term. We partner with cities (Ashdod, Nazareth, Rahat, Tel Aviv, and more) to create and fund a new municipal official: city health director. Together, we identify and meet the practical and cultural health needs of the city (jogging paths, water fountains, socioeconomic and language accessibility. Programs in homes, schools, workplaces, parks, and more make healthy living natural. Our initial input transforms the city’s health culture, it precipitates momentum that will impact Israelis far into the future.
Women’s Health in Arab Communities. 50% of Arab and Bedouin women over 60 have diabetes. In 2016, we piloted an educational and health leadership program for 40 women in Rahat and Nazareth. The women joined workshops about health and health leadership, implementing health-supportive environments in homes, schools, and community centers.
Diabetes Awareness in the Ethiopian Community. Many first-generation Ethiopian immigrants (adults, elderly) struggle with Hebrew. They cannot access our mainstream awareness/prevention campaigns. We aim to produce a 4-part television feature on diabetes in Amaharic (Ethiopian language). The feature will air on Israel’s Ethiopian TV channel, and reach thousands of homes.
Ultra-Orthodox Awareness and Environments. Our culture-specific programs create concrete awareness and lifestyle change in the ultra-Orthodox community. Attention to cultural norms (separate programs for men and women, culture-specific communication) has impacted over 1,000 ultra-Orthodox children, teens, and adults to date. With our guidance, mothers and teens now implement health-supportive environments in homes, schools, and community centers.
Workplaces. Awareness and programs in the workplace create health-supportive daytime environments for adults. Long workdays make office health patterns crucial for individual and family health. To date, together with 15 businesses and municipalities (police forces, fire departments) – and with demand for more – we bring lifestyle awareness and improvement to thousands of Israeli adults.
The prevalence of obesity and diabetes is rising throughout the western world at a rate so high that the World Health Organization officially defines them as epidemics – the only non-viral epidemics. The increase in obesity and diabetes cross socioeconomic, cultural, and age without regard to level of education or financial means. 500,000 Israelis are diagnosed with diabetes. It is estimated that 500,000 more live with the disease, though undiagnosed.
Proper nutrition and an active lifestyle are the healthiest and safest ways to prevent diabetes and obesity, and to reduce redundant, unhealthy weight. Along with attention to risk factors like smoking, people who lead healthy lifestyles benefit from better long-term health, lower stress levels, and a sense of control and fulfillment in daily life, at home, and work.
4 Hamelaha St.
Lod 7152010
Israel
Mission Statement
Merchavim’s mission is to help Israel’s young citizens of all backgrounds to learn about the other, value diversity, and create fairer classrooms, schools and communities
Vision
To be a leading Israeli shared citizenship education organization, in order to help all of Israel’s 8 million citizens to live together in a fairer society by providing everyone with equal opportunities, respect and a sense of belonging
Core Values
Fair treatment of employees, suppliers and partners.
Respect for diversity among our staff and our target populations, as an expression of our shared citizenship vision.
Professionalism and steadily improving quality of programs and services.
Partnership with various organizations to promote our vision, on the basis of shared values.
Responsibility, trust and transparency in all partnerships.
Learning and continual improvement as an organization and as individuals – we aspire to be the best organization in our field.
Identification and commitment to our shared citizenship model – along with a continual ambition for its improvement.
Major ProgramsSeminars and Workshops - A variety of seminars for teachers (e.g. teaching kindergarten, English or Physical Ed. classes), that provide them with the tools to promote fairness and acceptance of the ‘other’ among their students. The courses are held in diverse groups (religious, secular, immigrants, natives, Arabs and Jews etc.), and are experiential. Additionally, we assist organizations and municipalities to hold meaningful encounters between different groups within diverse communities.Art - This program engages over 50 schools, 100 art and homeroom teachers and 1,600 of their students, across the country. The program includes a training seminar for teachers, weekly art lessons for students - focusing on the beauty of diversity and the other’s culture and heritage - and creative museum encounters between schools and students from different identities (religious, secular, special ed., mainstream, new immigrants, natives, Arabs and Jews etc.). Teaching Staff Diversity - Merchavim works with the Ministry of Education through a joint initiative to integrate 500 Arab teachers (of math, science and English) in Jewish schools. Each year, 15,000 students are taught by teachers in the program. It enables meaningful encounters between Arab and Jewish citizens while ensuring that every student is taught by the best possible teacher without regard to his/her identity.Communicative Arabic and Arabic Society - In the framework of the “Let’s Talk” program, 10,000 Jewish elementary school students study communicative Arabic and shared citizenship. The program is accompanied by two additional packs: “Let’s Meet”, for encounters between Jewish and Arab pupils, and "Let's Get Acquainted", for the study of the Arab and Islamic worlds and communicative Arabic in Jewish middle schools.
Rishon Letzion 3
Tel Aviv
Israel
Mesila – Aid and Information Center for the Foreign Workers and Refugees and their children of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, is an organization whose main purpose is to offer assistance, aid, counseling, advocacy and mediation services to the foreign workers and the refugees, while emphasizing on the children of the community.
Mesila offers an "open door” to the distressed segments of the migrant and refugee
community, as well as a “window” through which municipal leaders and policymakers can
improve their understanding of the needs and the conditions of the foreign worker's
community.At Mesila we strongly believe that our mission as social workers is to empower the community and offer assistance in the means of giving knowledge and developing tools that enable the community to help itself. We are not interested in "doing the job" for the unprivileged, but to turn them into a strong and unified community that will be able to create it's own resources and access to various means, with a strong leadership. Our main purpose, as the only body that provide welfare and social services to this marginalized population, is to offer assistance, aid, counseling, advocacy and mediation services to the foreign workers and the refugees, while emphasizing on strengthening of the local community, by various means: empowerment of groups and leaders within the community, explanation and promoting of various issues (access to resources, health, human rights, employment, care and fostering in early childhood), building and strengthening internal networks of mutual help within the community, assisting in establishing communal educational frames etc. Mesila is not a political organization but an organization that strives to ensure the basic human rights
of all the individuals that stay or ask for shelter in Israel, as a part of our commitment as a developed country and hand in hand with Jewish tradition ("You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" (Exodus 22:20)
• Practical assistance at the individual level (counseling, referrals, and mediation).
• Improving the living conditions of the children in the foreign worker's community.
• Assistance at a community level (identification and analysis of social issues in order to develop and strength support networks).
• Data collection regarding the foreign worker's community in Tel Aviv and research of the global trend of migrant workers in order to improve Mesila's ability to service its target population.
• Attempting to influence government policy-making on a national level
1. The individual domain: Consultation on a variety of topics provided to about 150 individuals each month. This service offered by the case coordinator and volunteers who are fluent in the individual's native language. Consultations range from emergency intervention in crises to long-term counseling.
2. The community domain: Developing self-help mechanisms and welfare projects, cooperating with inter-community organizations, developing community skills to deal with emergencies and vital safety information, woman empowerment.
3. Preschooler's domain: Improving conditions at the "Mass Babysitting" groups of the foreign community; locating and treating children at risk; mediation and assisting foreign worker's children's integration within public community services (health, education, etc.); family interventions and more. Modification for treatment to children with special needs.
4. Volunteering domain: Recruiting, training and supervising and directing approximately 270 volunteers in variety of domains including: personal coaching, mediation, legal assistant, psycho-social treatment, group workshops, intervention in emergency situations, activities in the kindergartens etc.
5. Public Domain: Activities aimed at heightening awareness of the plight of the foreign worker's community and influencing policy-makers and public officials on a local and national level.
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45 Yotam str
Haifa, 34675
Israel
To reduce the burden of cancer in Middle Eastern populations regardless of their cultural religions and ethnic backgrounds. This objective will be achieved via educational activities and professional training programs in individual countries and the region as a whole.
Promotion of Epidemiological studies and surveys via the establishment of a regional network of cancer registries.
Promotion of palliative care services for cancer patients in the community in Middle Eastern countries
Halochamim 8
Tel Aviv 61084
Israel
Our mission is to use sport to create positive social change by way of life skills training for disadvantaged populations and promote understanding and coexistence among different groups in Israel and the region. Mifalot harnesses the power of sport for enrichment and values education, to bolster gender quality, teach life skills to children with special needs, promote the integration and inclusion of immigrants and refugees, and create bonds of friendship among children from diverse backgrounds, as well as helping them to maximize potential and ability.
Among the special programs of Mifalot are:
The Game of Life
For special needs populations
Children, youth and adults suffering from mental and physical disabilities, communication impairments, autism, and behavioral disorders from all sectors, take part in this unique program. Its goals are to strengthen life skills development, provide sport and healthy lifestyle training, teach coping mechanisms for one’s social stigma, and create a positive self-image. The project is one academic year long and models social integration and life skills training in a way that carries over from the field and group discussions into everyday life. Today, over 2,500 individuals with special needs participate in our programs in over 150 projects all over Israel. Mifalot works in cooperation with our national partners: the Israeli National Insurance Institute, The Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Social Affairs, and our local partners: disability institutions across Israel, such as the Levtzaler Residence in Herzliyya, Kfar Tikva in Tivon, and AKIM Israel.
Know Your Neighbor
Shared living
This program brings together boys and girls from diverse backgrounds -- Jewish, Muslim and Christian, Arab, Bedouin, Druze, immigrant, and refugee – to play together on mixed teams, create friendships, learn peace values, overcome stereotypes, and become “change agents” in their local communities. Mifalot works with academic experts to evaluate the social impact of this project and the results are extremely encouraging. Based on pre-, mid- , and post- evaluations, almost all the children who participate demonstrate an almost complete abandonment of negative attitudes towards the other side. Especially during tense times, this program is a shining light of hope for the ability of children to see past skin color and religion to find what unites us.
Civil Service Programs
Social inclusion
The civil service program is a Mifalot initiative created in 2009 and designed for full-time, young-adult volunteers who are not recruited for service in the IDF, including Arab Israelis, ultra-Orthodox, and Jewish young-adults at risk. The volunteers, both male and female, receive extensive training and serve for hundreds of hours each in their home communities. Particularly for our Arab Israeli participants, the program helps them enjoy greater social equality and more basic rights, including financial benefits in the short term and helping to eradicate discrimination in the longer term. At the grass roots level (local government and civil society) there is a growing movement to support civil service for Arabs that would empower local leadership, serve the local community, and attain equal rights.
Ensured Future
Employability skills for youth at risk
This program, which began in 2012, uses football to develop the employment and social capabilities of at-risk youth. Our participants come from broken homes, deal with an array of emotional issues, and sometimes live in residential boarding schools, since they are unable to be cared for at home (these homes are known as “pnimiyot” in Hebrew). This project provides a safe and empowering place for these troubled youth to learn employability skills such as responsibility, team-work, and communication, and get them to believe in themselves and their own abilities. After completion of the program’s educational training (including seminars, day tours, and outdoor workshops), the youth earn a certificate certified by the state allowing them to work as guides, coaches, and counselors – a huge accomplishment and confidence booster for them. We currently have over 700 youth in the North, Center, and South of Israel taking part in this program, including several “Ensured Future” projects for Bedouins in the South of Israel. Our original partner for the program was the Foundation for Children and Youth At-risk, but once it was recognized as an important and leading educational model, other partners joined in, including the Negev Development Authority and ORT Israel Schools, Israel’s largest educational network of schools and colleges.
Beyond the Net
Female empowerment
A female empowerment program designed to bring more females into Mifalot’s activities by offering a sport that is more attractive to girls than football: catchball, a sport based on volleyball. It promotes values of cooperation, healthy lifestyle, leadership, and self-esteem. Participation in the program gives young girls higher self-confidence, an enriching social experience, and in many cases, a road to future employment as sports counselors. Mifalot works with Jewish girls in local schools and residential boarding homes, Bedouin girls in the Negev, and Arab Israeli girls looking to change cultural stigmas surrounding females and sports.
Mifalot has a long and storied history of partnerships at home and internationally which have allowed us to grow as an organization and build the capacity of smaller organizations. We are a relatively large organization that has the capability of conduction projects on a very large scale. With the support of USAID and the European Union we've impacted thousands Israeli and Palestinian youth, trainign them to be coaches for social change. By joining the Network, Mifalot will be able to contribute insight and best practice information to dozens, if not hundreds, of organizations that also undertake work in marginalized communities. After lmost 20 years of programming and evaluation experience, we have a lot to share regarding flexibiltiy, fine-tuning, and addressing local needs through specialized educational programming.
Mifalot would like to join the ALF Network to exapand our reach and ability to partner with others in the field of social change. The ALF Network would offer a convenient way to contact other organizations with similar missions and combine our talents.
Address: 8 Halochamim St., PO.Box 8400
Tel Aviv
Israel
Miflot's vision is to capture the power of football to build more compassionate, just and cohesive communities and support the sustainable development of a more engaged society. Our primary business is achieving social change through sport by: -Addressing the educational and social needs of children/youth by giving them the tools to learn, grow, excel and develop themselves and their community; -Educating and advocating for a culture of peace, diversity, coexistence, tolerance and mutual respect. Mifalot's projects use football to accomplish the following objectives: -Promoting peace and coexistence by creating bonds of friendship between Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians; -Assisting children living in at-risk, disadvantaged or isolated environments in our region and internationally; -Teaching life skills to children with special needs; -Integrating newly arrived immigrants into Israeli society; -Socially integrating Arab-Israelis by empowering the individual and the Arab-Israeli community; -Shaping socially responsible and value enriched leaders for tomorrow.
Mifalot operates over 300 projects. The main project models include: -‘On the Field’- promoting children as an integral part of a quality society -‘Life Skills – Sports in Motion’- building basic skill acquisition in children -‘The Game of Life’ - developing social skills and behavioural norms in children/youth/adults with special needs -‘Tie/Win’ - integrating special needs and volunteer youth -‘Sports Leadership’ - building community involvement and activism amongst youth -‘Language Through Play’ - teaching children/youth to acquire languages (English, Hebrew and Arabic) in a fun and interactive way -‘Know Your Neighbour’ - promotes interaction on and off the football field between majority and minority children/youth (including Israeli Arabs, Bedouins, Palestinians) -‘Civil Service’ - promoting Arab-Israeli integration into Israeli society -'Mifalot Family' – bringing kids and parents together on the football field -'Mifalot International' – Mifalot project models implemented in Jordan, Palestine, Rwanda, Angola, Haiti, Benin and Cameroon
P.O. Box 578
Kfar Vradim 25147
Israel
To establish a foundation that will utilize existing international grants, with special reference to the European Union and the European Youth Commission for youth projects based on minority groups, the disadvantaged, the abused, the disabled and the mentally challenged at no cost to the NGO’s or participants involved.
With special reference to youth projects (participants: ages 15-30) and projects aimed at people who work with youth (unlimited age).
Examples of such funding are: Euro Med Youth Program, Anna Lindh Foundation, European Youth Foundation, Remembrance Fund, Socrates and Pluto and so on .
? International Youth Exchanges
? International Volunteer Services
? Training projects, study projects, job shadowing projects to advance the knowledge and experience of those working with youth.
? Awareness projects
? Net working
? Educational Exchanges
? Cultural Exchanges
? International Seminars