Education/Empowerment Projects

Projects
Afternoon Kindergarten To offer an enriching, warm, supportive and caring environment, after kindergarten hours, for immigrant and local pre-schoolers from dysfunctional families, where problems of alcoholism, divorce, chronic illness and unemployment cause children to be 'at risk'.
Center for Treatment of Family Violence This is a model to reduce domestic violence, pioneering a dynamic approach of working couple or group therapy.
Ethiopian Embroidery Project To allow Ethiopian women to work at home using their ethnic embroidery skills thereby gaining a supplementary income whilst being able to care for their children.
Hefzibah Community Projects, Netanya Volunteers run several non-funded projects in the Hefzibah Community in addition to, and as a result of, the Students Build a Neighbourhood Project. Damsash, head of the Hefzibah Neighbourhood Committee explains the amazing turnaround in the neighbourhood since the project began.
Music Centre for Excellence To encourage excellence in the arts in talented Ethiopian children . To develop their self confidence and raise their self esteem. To create performances that will be a source of pride to the children and their community.
Neighborhood Computer Centers To provide computer teaching, study and programming to immigrant children and adults in a low socio-economic neighborhood.
Neve ESRA After School programme Neve means “oasis”, an aptly descriptive term for an afternoon group of high-risk children in Modiin, who need to be kept out of the home but not entirely away from the family hearth.
Programme of Excellence at The Ruppin Institute of Marine Science To encourage talented youngsters to fulfill their potential by providing them with a challenging program of enrichment. To train gifted children in future leadership skills.
Programme of Excellence at The Weizmann Institute To encourage talented youngsters to fulfill their potential by providing them with a challenging program of enrichment. To train gifted children in future leadership skills.
Right Track Centers for Youth To provide teenagers a neighborhood social-educational center where they can receive tuition, counseling and a welcoming atmosphere as an alternative to street culture, to prevent them becoming school dropouts or falling in with criminal elements. These centers offer a “home away from home” in the afternoons for 13- 17 year olds. ESRA provides the salaries for some 11 teachers who help a majority of the youngsters in these centers.