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Activities > IsraCorps Placement Partners
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IsraCorps arranges the placement of the volunteers in the periphery communities. In the mornings the volunteers are engaged in the formal education system through programs for narrowing learning and social gaps and in the afternoons they are active with these same pupils in informal frameworks, based on local needs.
The main placement partners of Isracorps are:
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Tafnit
Tafnit was established by the Sacta-Rashi Foundation and the Ministry of Education with the purpose of narrowing learning gaps, preventing school dropout and imparting skills and tools to the school teaching staffs to help advance students with poor achievements.
The Tafnit Program is based on the assumption that each and every student can succeed in school. This can be accomplished by addressing the variables behind the lack of success, eventually resulting in better scholastic achievements and reduction of gaps.
Tafnit has an exceptional record of narrowing learning gaps and motivating for success in elementary and high schools in the periphery of Israel. Tafnit and IsraCorps share a common social worldview and cooperate as strategic partners.
Nissim Cohen, Tafnit Program Director, is one of the principle figures involved in structuring the IsraCorps concept.
IsraCorps volunteers are placed in the schools to work within the Tafnit Program – aimed at narrowing learning gaps in many schools throughout Israel
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Active Citizenship Project
The educational program for active citizenship offers a unique model (developed jointly by Israel Venture Network, New Israel Fund, and the Ministry of Education)to promote citizenship education combined with active citizenship. The project's main goal is to strengthen democracy in Israel. The project focuses on enabling every student to become well versed in the language of citizenship and experience active citizenship by serving in the community. It enables young people to better grasp the power and contribution of the democratic tools available to them in becoming responsible and active members of their communities.
IsraCorps volunteers are involved in the Active Citizenship Project in morning and afternoon activities
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ELEM
ELEM, the association for youth in distress, strives to relieve the hardships confronting teens in Israel. Every year it works with tens of thousands of youngsters in need of help. ELEM reaches out to youngsters in schools, at information and counseling centers and even on the street, offering a wide variety of real-time responses to the stresses that are part and parcel of life in Israel. Dispersed in 25 communities throughout Israel, ELEM operates thousands of projects and employs a diverse staff of professionals who work shoulder to shoulder with some 1,500 volunteers specially trained for their tasks.
IsraCorps volunteers are integrated as mentors for youth and children at risk in ELEM clubhouses at several local municipalities.
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Yahdav – Beersheva and the South
The Yahdav Association of Beersheva and the South, founded by the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, initiates, develops and operates health and social welfare services for children and youth at risk and for people with special needs in Beersheva and the southern region of Israel.
IsraCorps volunteers are engaged in frameworks run by the Yahdav Association for children and youth at risk and people with special needs.
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Northern Goals Association
Founded by the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, Northern Goals was registered as a non-profit organization in 2004. Its main goals include: initiating, planning and developing community and regional responses for education, welfare and higher education for children, youth and young adults in the northern periphery of Israel. It also assists in developing services for populations with special needs and for children and youth at risk.
IsraCorps volunteers work in programs operated by the Northern Goals Association for children and youth at risk and people with special needs.
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Lev – Volunteering in the Community
An IsraCorps team, headed by Mr. Moshe Rein, a keen advocate of the "Singapore Method" for teaching math and very experienced in working with Jewish and Arab youth to narrow learning gaps, developed this year a unique mentoring project ("Lev" – heart in Hebrew, an acronym for "Towards Volunteering in the Community") run by Isracorps' volunteers especially from Arab communities. Operating mornings and afternoons, the program contributes to reducing learning and social gaps among the youngsters.
The mentoring program is based on volunteers working with groups of three to five children in a "cozy room", a pleasant, comfortable setting outside of the classroom. The volunteer tutors the pupils in English, math and Arabic and helps in homework preparation. The volunteers do not function as teachers or substitute teachers, but rather as mentors or "big brothers", an added value to the regular faculty. Every volunteer mentors about twenty pupils. The program is accompanied by a professional and intensive training program for the volunteers, once monthly
Isracorps volunteers are engaged in the Lev Program in around 30 local municipalities.
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