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A range of giving opportunities exist that comfortably suit your personal budget range. Below are options for giving that require a generous donation in order to reach its full impact. Should one of these opportunities be of interest to you, please let us know.
If you are passionate about a particular field or location in which you would like to invest, that is not included in the proposals below, please do let us know and Magbit Canada’s team will customize your opportunity according to your interests while meeting the needs in the field.
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Up to CAD 50,000 and Bnei-Mitzva
- Reaching and Enriching Ethiopian-Israeli Youth at Risk through Dance at the Kadima Capoeira and Breakdance.
Participation in these activities can serve as a catalyst for integrating into one’s environment, while boosting the morale of everyone involved; it can enhance young people’s image in their own eyes and those of society in general; it can work wonders for Ethiopian-Israeli youth at risk. Each course will allow 20 participants and will take place once a week for two hours throughout the course of six months.
- Providing Diagnosis and Treatment to Learning Disabled Children
This project can significantly benefit underprivileged children with learning disabilities and narrow the gaps that exist between their academic achievements and those of their peers. Through this project we hope to provide these children with the help they need in order to improve their current educational and social situation, as well as their chances to succeed in the future. Early diagnosis and treatment has proven effective in improving the participants' academic achievements, motivation and self-image, thus helping prevent their drifting to the margins of the class and dropping out of school in later years.
- Project Michael – A Revolutionary Educational Method for Children
The Michael Method aims to improve the pupil's self-esteem, encourages pupils to take responsibility for their lives, set goals for the future and aid in decision-making. All of these goals are extremely important for the children of immigrants.
Students of the Michael Method learn to use a range of effective tools and principles allowing them to actualize their innate talents more efficiently and develop dramatic improvements in their educational and personal achievements. The target population is comprised of 40 young adults in Kadima’s youth centre in Bat-Yam. The young adults are both native-born Israelis and Ethiopian-Israelis, male and female, ages 12-16.
- 13 with love (or in Hebrew – 13 Be'Ahava)
In Bat-Yam, many children come from families that lack a basic knowledge of Judaism, and we believe we can improve this state of affairs. This projects hopes to bring more students into contact with the idea of the Bar Mitzvah, exposing them to Jewish ideology and experience.By exposing families to the basic beliefs of Judaism, they arrive at the Bar Mitzvah ceremony with a better understanding of what the ceremony stands for and its importance in the child’s life. The child learns how to read the Torah portion and other important topics in Judaism. Seventh- and eighth-graders in Bat-Yam's different schools will benefit from this project. Every year, between 100 and 200 students take part in preparations for their Bar Mitzvah.
- Library Development and School Books for Immigrant Children
Information is the future. Libraries and computers are a window to knowledge and communication in the modern world. The unemployed, illiterate, poor parents of the new Ethiopian immigrants cannot provide their children with the important tools that can bring them into the 21st century and allow them to have learning and development opportunities equal to that of their peers.
- Empowering Young Ethiopian Children: After school Warm House in Zipori Elementary School
Warm Houses for school children are a network of educational and social centres for children at risk, ages 7-10, open five days a week, from 12:30 to 16:00 in every elementary school in Bat-Yam. The program aimes to provide “warm houses” for every child in need, regardless of origin, to enable better integration and equal opportunities to all children. In Zipori Elementary School, there is a warm house with three groups of 35 children each. Of these children, 25% (26 children) are of Ethiopian origin. These children are not able to enjoy every activity the centre has to offer because their parents cannot afford the basic participation fee (CAD 30 per month).
Up to CAD 100,000
- Youth Futures
This program provides holistic approach to the support given to children and youth at risk and thus becomes effective in its results. Participants in this program experience dissatisfying parental abilities for various reasons and a trustee is assigned to every 6-8 kids. The Trustee's job is crucial as he coordinates the kid's behavior progress at home, during school hours and in the afternoon.
- Yuvalim: Supporting Study, Enrichment, Empowerment and Integration
At the Bayit V’Gan Junior High School for Girls, 22% of the 254 students are new Ethiopian immigrants. Two groups within the school require special attention and additional resources: outstanding students, who need to be intellectually challenged and encouraged, and weaker students, who need extra scholastic support and attention.
- A Computer for Every Child: Equal Opportunities for Ethiopian-Israeli Youth
This program will allow reducing learning gaps among Ethiopian immigrants and providing them with modern tools to enhance their learning and communication skills. To do so, we would like to provide every needy child with a computer, including educational software and internet access.
A home computer will also provide other members of the family with an important channel to the modern world, helping with job searches, Hebrew language acquisition, acculturation, and information and skills as they, too, adapt to a new lifestyle in Israel.
- Net@ program
net@ projects provides high-tech training combined with a social awareness and volunteer curriculum. At the end of the process participants become licensed PC technicians. There is a need to upgrade the computer lab which services no less than 50 students throughout the week every couple of years.
- “Spaces”: Educational and Communal Support for Children and Families
The “Spaces” project aims to provide a holistic solution to reduce social and learning gaps by enhancing the integration of Ethiopian new immigrants in school as well as within the local neighborhood. The program has several complementary goals: to strengthen self-esteem and the personal sense of security among children and their parents; to identify and continually monitor the pupils’ needs and to treat those needs both during school hours as well as through an extended day program, and to transform the school into a center of educational and social enrichment for parents as well as for their children.
- Adopt a young community
Support a group of young Israelis who moved to a neighborhood with under privileged conditions. These social pioneers are joined by young vibrant residents of these neighborhoods who have the opportunity to leave but choose to stay. It has been proven beyond doubt that these Young Communities have the ability to bring about long-lasting change in Israel by reinforcing their efforts. They serve as a unique, internal change agent by living full lives and in addition volunteering, creating new educational programs and social services while bringing about long-lasting social change. They come from all parts of Israeli society, from socialist youth movements to religious Zionist ones; native-born Israelis to new immigrants from Ethiopia and FSU. Today over 90 Young Communities are making a difference across Israel today – every day. Each community averages about 40 families.
- Making Vocational Training and Higher Education Accessible: Creating Opportunities for Ethiopian Immigrants
Providing scholarships to enable and motivate young adults who would otherwise be unable to attend vocational training courses or obtain academic degrees will permit members of this culturally rich yet economically poor community to pursue their dreams – and their desired professions – helping them advance and go on to enrich the areas in which they and their families live.
- Empowering Young Ethiopian Children: After school Warm House in Zipori Elementary School
Warm Houses for school children are a network of educational and social centres for children at risk, ages 7-10, open five days a week, from 12:30 to 16:00 in every elementary school in Bat-Yam. The program aimes to provide “warm houses” for every child in need, regardless of origin, to enable better integration and equal opportunities to all children. In Zipori Elementary School, there is a warm house with three groups of 35 children each. Of these children, 25% (26 children) are of Ethiopian origin. These children are not able to enjoy every activity the centre has to offer because their parents cannot afford the basic participation fee (CAD 30 per month).
Captial Projects and above CAD 100,000
- Net@ program
– net@ projects provides high-tech training combined with a social awareness and volunteer curriculum. At the end of the process participants become licensed PC technicians. There is a need to upgrade the computer lab which services no less than 50 students throughout the week every couple of years.
- “Kedima” –A New Home for Youth at Risk
The Kadima Home is an old concrete Quonset type barrack converted to a centre for youth.Despite the limitations of the physical structure these children refer to it as home.In Bat-Yam, there is just one such Kadima Home for 68 children, of which 90% are of Ethiopian origin, over half of whom came to Israel in the last three years. This is an integrated program, but as it is on a needs basis, the Ethiopian immigrant community has the largest number of participants. There are still over 30 children on the waiting list in need of the services that Kadima provides. The number of participants is expected to grow to 100 over the next few months. The proposed expansion will increase the capacity of the Home to open its embrace to an additional thirty children in need of this initiative.