Partners on the Way

Israeli Spirit

The Israeli Spirit is an association from the Jewish Agency which is one of the founders of the village (along with the Hadassah).

The Israeli spirit prevails over dozens of projects in the village: food baskets for the holidays, the bicycle group, assistance to the therapeutic system, a rehabilitation and therapeutic dog kennel, and in addition connects us with business companies and takes care of the help and financing of many projects.

The One on One Program – the Mentor Program, in which each trainee is assigned a volunteer mentor to accompany them from the 12th grade until about a year after discharge from the army. The program includes the accompaniment of a volunteer graduate, with rich life experience, who can listen and help in dealing with the challenging period of the end of education In the youth village and towards the recruitment to the IDF, during the service and afterwards in successful integration into the Israeli society.

The graduates of the youth villages who will be integrated into the army, national service, and preparatory schools, will encounter the difficulties typical of their peers and even more so for those who lack a family background. To that end, the volunteers are there for them. The purpose of the program is to assure these young people that there is someone who cares about them, that they are not alone in dealing with everyday challenges. The accompanying mentors offer relationships of trust and long-term friendships. They serve as role models, mediators, “advocates” and especially as older friends.

Ruppin Academic Center

• Assistance at the learning center: students from the Ruppin Academic Center conduct study reinforcement sessions in mathematics, English and Hebrew. As part of the meetings, friendships and assistance are created even in informal and pedagogical contexts.

Science-Seeker/ the science of the sea – there is nothing like the sea, which is a few meters from us, to connect souls and help in goal-oriented learning. A project that has been going on for about a decade, in collaboration with the Ruppin Academic Center and the Faculty of Marine Sciences for 9th and 10th grade students. As part of the project, the students explore the sea, participate in sailing and rowing in the anchorage, research creatures in the laboratory, do beach cleaning activities, participate in lectures, and prepare a graduation project. The peak activity in the project is a yacht cruise to the coast of Israel.

DELL

• Dell Computers partners with the school: giving life skills lessons to inspire the student, open new worlds for them and to help students in creating dreams at the same time as help and support in everyday studies.
• Exposure to high-tech – exposure to industry: visits to industrial centers throughout the country with the aim of getting to know the Israeli high-tech industry. Acquaintance of the students with the future employment market, receiving inspiration, building a personal future image, empowerment, social formation.
• The Youth Village Educational Center: private lessons and in small groups at the rural learning center by the company’s employees.
• Empowerment meetings for Girls: strengthening the image and self-confidence of the girls, in their abilities and the goals they can set for themselves. Acquaintance between the trainees and figures who will serve as role models and inspiration. All this raises the motivation for learning and instilling values in their lives.
• Repetition?: as part of the collaboration, boys, and girls in the youth village, go through an advanced course in music, and learn how to become a DJ themselves. As part of the course, they get tools, knowledge, experience, and a profession for life.

 

Negun Gore

A partnership was created as part of the collaboration with DELL. The association “Negun Gore” is an association of music lovers who believe that music can create real change.

As part of the collaboration, boys and girls in the youth village take an advanced course in music and learn how to become a DJ themselves. As part of the course, they get tools, knowledge, experience, and a profession for life.

 

SIEMENS

The “Siemens Youth” patrol is a combination of the village’s students and the company’s employees in various activities aimed at: getting to know the country, navigating before the army, formation and challenging activities, educational assistance for the campers, giving them tools to overcome obstacles through activities in the village and outside.

Women’s Day activity for female empowerment:  As part of this activity, the village apprentices meet with leading women at Siemens. As a result, relationships of kinship and inspiration are created during an activity that combines enrichment and broadening one’s mind.

A day of Mitzvot  for the village: improving the face of the village while socializing, win for both sides.

Accompanying the First group of the youth village.

 

Hadassah Women’s Organization

In the youth village there is a program in education and Jewish identity that was established by the Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization in 1999 with the intention of strengthening the Israeli Zionist Jewish identity of the youth immigration students who come to the youth villages supported by the organization. The Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization is also interested in strengthening the connection to Jewish culture, imparting knowledge of the sources of culture during the Israeli holidays and the Israeli Zionist identity. Since these issues are not studied in the state education system, the organization chose to establish a supplementary program that would add these elements to the curriculum of the village students, to the educational program of the villages and to the variety of experiential programs conducted in the youth villages.

The program includes 5 components:

• “Eshte Hail” program to empower girls. This component is for junior high and high school students, it includes 10 double sessions in which learning takes place alongside creative and playful activities according to the learning ability of these youths: creative works, dance and inviting additional lecturers.
• “Beit Midrash” – a program for studying Jewish texts for all students  accompanied by a social-value discussion. The program includes 10 double sessions. At the end of the program, a graduation ceremony is held, in a village in the area or in Jerusalem, where the participants are given a book of Jewish sources or a kiddush cup for boys and candlesticks for girls along with a certificate of graduation.
• Training courses for the educational staff in the village – every year there are several training courses for all the educational staff in the village on Jewish topics and a demonstration on the topics and contents that are passed on to the students. Also, a plan is being built with the team to expand the Zionist Jewish programs in the village.
• Shabbaton for mothers and daughters – a unique meeting of mothers and daughters that includes a Shabbat experience together. The meeting is intended for mothers and daughters who have been identified by the educational staff in the villages as families with communication difficulties between the mothers and daughters. The experience in recent years shows unprecedented success in bridging the rifts in families and success in building a relationship between the participating mothers and daughters.
• The trip to Poland – the youth villages go on a trip to Poland as part of a program to study the Holocaust, strengthen Jewish identity and solidarity with the Jewish people. In preparation for the trip to Poland and for the stay there on Shabbat, the participants study of Jewish rituals in order to enable the students and instructors to participate in the Shabbat rituals actively and from the understanding of the Jewish culture and heritage for which the Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust.

Ministry of Defense

The youth village has a partnership with senior officials of the Ministry of Defense in the following areas: preparation for the IDF recruitment stages, orientation towards the first orde ?r, readiness for the army, raising motivation. The activities include on-going educational industrial tours and giving inspiring lectures from the leaders of the office.

 

Another Class Association

The Association has been working since 2002 to promote equal opportunities among children from the socio-geographic periphery throughout the country through the integration of volunteers from the world of employment in the education system. In its activity, the association creates an unmediated meeting between students with few opportunities and volunteers from content worlds outside the school walls. In an activity during another lesson, students get to meet people from various professions such as: engineers, lawyers, economists and more, and in addition, the students are exposed to diverse life paths and career stories. Furthermore, the volunteers get to take part in an exciting, empowering, and enriching process activity. The activity is held nationwide in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and youth villages throughout the country and in all sectors.

Hadassah Neurim in collaboration with the Another Class  Association are launching an innovative initiative in the youth villages, in which the village students are given an opportunity for change and growth through several volunteer programs. Among the highlights, “Business Tuesdays” – extracurricular learning and integration into the business companies located in the village.

See Far Association

The purpose of the Association is to locate outstanding youth from geographical and social peripheries and train them for higher studies in the field of cinema, television, and art. The outstanding students in the creative field who are chosen for this project meet in small groups and work for two years with the best directors in Israel, learning and practicing directing, writing, photography and directing actors. The groups go through study days dealing with art, artist workshops with the best creators, as well as visits to museums, film festivals and more.

The collaboration between Hadassah Youth and the project “See far” has been in existence for 6 years. This year will end a third cycle with the participation of youth from Hadassah Neurim. There are about 10 graduates of the project who will receive a full scholarship for art studies at the various academies. Most of them created their own works (a kind of portfolio) in the works project for two years, which refined them and prepared them for the day when they want to go to the screenings at the academies.

The See far project is very closely connected to the boarding school and unlike other institutions and youth villages, a significant number of students from the Hadassah youth village are always accepted in each cycle.

Persis Medical

With the assistance of the “Israeli Spirit” in the Business Management major, the students not only learn the subjects of the major, but also get the opportunity to participate in meetings with various officials of the Persis Medical company, one of the leading companies in the world in the field of manufacturing products for the purpose of wound healing. It markets its products to various armies, including the IDF, the armies of the United States and China.

Once a month business management students become partners of the company in various processes. The CEO of the company explains the way of making decisions, gives tools to improve the climate among the company’s employees, shares with the students’ current problems and ways to solve them. The development people teach how to develop a new product: from the idea to production. The marketing people give tools for commercial success.

The meetings are held not only at school, but students come to the company’s offices and see the work in real time. In addition, they visit the company’s factories, are impressed by the production process and the day-to-day work of the industry.

Cooperation with a company like Persis Medical prepares our students for the big world of business and industry and gives them tools to deal with the daily problems in the workplaces they will be admitted to in the near future.

Youth to Give

A national organization, Youth to Give,  educates about the values of volunteering and social solidarity. As part of the membership in the youth organization, the trainees are exposed to different populations in Israeli society and their unique needs such as adults, those with special needs, underprivileged children and more.

In addition, every year the trainees implement a social project. As part of the organization’s youth activities, a variety of activities and volunteering activities are held, among them: the national Thanksgiving Day of the youth organization in which students thanked the village’s service providers, festive volunteering at Akim, volunteering at a nursing home, and social initiatives such as the “Big Brother” project were put into action which lasted for a year with the children of a neighbouring boarding school, collecting toys and books for the children of a welfare club in Hadera. As part of the Hadassah Youth Village project, it took graduate trainees to the Madzim (young leadership) course of the youth organization, and today the mature trainees guide younger trainees considering the values of the youth organization.