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Youth Leadership and enrichment programs

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• Net@

Children and Youth at Risk

• Youth Futures
• The M.A.R.H. Theater Kiryat Shemona Center for the Performing Arts The Welcoming Stage – A Drama Therapy Group for Youth-at-Risk
• The M.A.R.H. Theater Kiryat Shemona Center for the Performing Arts Theater as a Force for Healing – Theater Sessions Using Playback for Youth
• Assisting At Risk Youth Regional Youth Advancement House
• Purchase of an Air-Conditioning System for the Ramat Korazim Elementary School
• The Children and Youth Department-Mevoot HaHermon Community Center Youth at Risk- Moshav Dishon

Vulnerable populations

• Renanim School
• Kesher Classroom - Mevoh Hagalil School Equipment for autistic children
• Hydrotherapy Program for Kindergarten Children with Special Needs

Early childhood education

• Kiryat Shmona early childhood centre
• Equipping day cares in Kibbutzim Upper Galilee Regional Council

Community and culture

• The M.A.R.H. Theater Kiryat Shemona Center for the Performing Arts Neighborhood, Open and Street Theater – Accessibility to Theater through Street Productions

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.

Contact us at office@uiac.org.il or contact your local Federation.

In many cases young adults from Israel's periphery stride in their studies and advance themselves, and they tend to move to central areas of the country where there are more personal opportunities, thus leaving their communities in a state of stagnation.
Two of the major challenges we are facing today in Israel's periphery are:

• The growing inequality of opportunity especially among children from under privileged families.
• The lack of visionary leadership.

Kav HaZinukis a project which offers, a one of a kind, long term leadership program beginning at age 15 to 25. Participants are of high potential that are breed to become Israel's future leaders in all sectors.

The project includes the following activities: leadership training – professional workshops; personal meetings – getting to know role models from different sectors; outdoor training – development of skills through management activities, sport challenges and team work; one-on-one coaching & leadership through action – each participant is obligated to develop an initiative by identifying a need in the region and act upon it.

Kav HaZinuk has developed a multi year model of leadership program. The program consists of three phases but UIAC will only direct its funds towards the first phase:

• Phase one – ages 15-18 – high school years
• Phase two – ages 18-21- compulsory military service and Shnat Shirut
• Phase three – ages 21-25- higher education

We work under the assumption that each participant will influence approximately 130 people in the first 3-years of the program.

Your gift of CAD 3,600 will help adopt a participant per annum.
Your gift of CAD 36,000 will help adopt a kid per 10 years program.
Your gift of 72,000 will help cultivate the future leadership of the Galilee Panhandle.

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Hi-tech and technology are one of the primary avenues for achievement and success to success in today’s society. But for many of Israel’s young people -- particularly from the underdeveloped social and geographic perimeter-- simple exposure to the educational and social opportunities that could lead them out of patterns of underachievement, underemployment or even unemployment. 

Even within Israel's bustling city centers, there are children who find themselves falling through the cracks of Israel's educational system. Whether from personal struggles, family dysfunction or social isolation, these children face countless obstacles that prevent their advancement. For some, their school demonstrates consistently low academic achievement and has limited staff to dedicate to reinforcing poor performers; for others, limited family income precludes their enrollment in afternoon enrichment activities.

Net@ confronts this challenge by empowering high school youth from socially marginalized localities with technological instruction and computer skills that not only provide an educational boost, but also a range of professional life skills for securing employment and success.

The program provides a demanding yet supportive framework that gives the participants not only technical skills, but also the self confidence and experience they need to succeed. Combining computer and communications training with a social empowerment program, Net@ is designed to imbue students with social values such as: excellence, individual and group responsibility, leadership, pluralism, multiculturalism, democracy, and contribution and commitment to the community. 

Two classes (approximately 40) high school students from regional high schools in Kiryat Shmona, currently participating in the program. 

The Net@ budget is based on a modular three-year breakdown, which enables donors to build upon each year of support for an additional year for up to three years.
Your gift of CAD 27,000 will help support the third year’s cost.
Your gift of CAD 42,000 will help support the second year’s cost. 
Your gift of CAD 56,000 will help support the first year’s cost.

More than 1 in 3 children in Israel lives below the poverty line, an alarming increase in recent years. Widening socio-economic gaps in Israel threaten to irreparably tarnish the social and moral landscape of the State of Israel. Sadly, children emerging from Israel's underdeveloped regions, like Kiryat Shmona, simply do not have the same life opportunities as their normative peers do, and have to struggle exponentially harder to achieve success in their lives and break out of destructive cycles of poverty and underachievement.

Paradoxically, despite the plethora of government and NGO programs designed to provide social and welfare services to vulnerable children, the realities of youth at-risk prevent them from getting the assistance they need. Often, there is an inverse relationship between need for social services and the ability to access them. The complexity of the problems facing these youth-at-risk is exactly what distances them from the services that are intended to help them. Without personal, intense intervention, they can easily spiral into self-destructive and irreversible patterns.

Youth Futures counteracts the vicious at-risk cycle by introducing a personal mentor – or Trustee – into the lives of struggling children throughout Israel's periphery. Trustees are specially trained, dedicated, and motivated young adults who aim to catalyze connections between participants and the local social and educational welfare resources they require. Acting as the focal point that draws together the child-at-risk:

• community services
• At home with the family
• The education system

Today we vouch that the trustee system has introduced an entirely new paradigm into at-risk intervention in Israel.

The project includes the following activities:

• A tailored intervention plan is crafted for each child, with the input of social workers, school principals, teachers and other involved professionals. Example of detail on workplan: Involve the child's father more in his life through inviting him to school to participate in show-and-tell presentation.
• Trustees meet with each child individually at their schools as well as in a group setting on a weekly basis, and they further conduct periodic home visits. Example of an individual activity: sitting with the Trustee and choosing from a range of cards that describe personality traits and discussing them together.
• The Trustees bring together all the professionals surrounding each and every child twice a year to discuss his/her individual progress and plan future methods of dealing with unsolved challenges. Each child is further allocated an enrichment budget for individual and/or group activities tailored to their skills and interests. Examples of empowerment activity: guitar lessons, kapuera, drawing lessons. The group meets weekly for joint activities as well.

The annual budget for the project for 2009-2010 year is CAD 350,000; alternatively you can choose to support the program modularly:

Your gift of CAD 21,000 will help adopt a trustee and a group of 16 children.
Your gift of CAD 42,000 will help adopt one Youth Futures school (two trustees and 32 children).
Your gift of CAD 42,000 will provide Empowerment Baskets to 160 children in need.
Your gift of CAD 42,000 will help adopt a group of 16 children and their Trustee, in addition to providing para-professional training to the entire Trustee team in Kiryat Shmona.



Background The "M.A.R.H." Theater was founding 10 years ago by the late actor Menahem Eini. Menahem's vision was to see professional theater operating in Kiryat Shemona and the entire Upper Galilee; theater that would foster local professional creativity in the entire region together with the community through dialogue and social and cultural ties with creative life in Israel's major urban centers. The theater operates in three spheres: repertoire, educational and communal. In the framework of our educational activities we run 10 theater groups for children, teenagers, students, adults and populations with special needs. We also run a wide range of projects within the community.

Need The youth-at-risk theater project was designed as a sort of haven for youth who have dropped out of school and found their way to crime, delinquency and violence, and where they can experience and participate in theater's various spheres. Participants are referred to the project by the youth probation services, many having dropped out of school. For many of them, the project is really their "final refuge" for rehabilitation and normalcy.

Response The "Welcoming Stage" project has been running since 2007. in cooperation with the M.R.A.H. Theater, the "Topsy Turvy" Center of the ELEM Association and the Youth Probation Services. The project moderators meet weekly to prepare and coordinate the dynamics and content that arise during sessions, as well as meeting twice monthly with a psychologist who accompanies the entire process. This format allows the participating youth to "speak their minds" and express their wants and desires, needs and how they perceive themselves and their surroundings through acting on stage and the group's support.

Target Population Youth aged between 14-18; The present group has 17 participants

Sample Activity The "Welcoming Stage" project was established after the Second War in Lebanon as a reflection of the need to release tension among youth who, even without the security situation, had lost their way. The pilot group, which completed the program in 2009, was a most significant cornerstone for us: two members of the group who had dropped out of every educational framework, decided this year to contribute to society before being drafted into the IDF – which was also in doubt just a few months ago. Thanks to the group, the means of expression within it and the numerous possibilities for encouraging their self-confidence, all helped bring these youngsters to being more sure of themselves and show initiative to contribute and work to and for the community. Other youth continue working in the theater in various frameworks in and around the city. Group members have performed in various national professional conferences with other youth-at-risk and the M.R.A.H. model is working this year with another three centers in Israel.

Suggested Budget Total Budget: CAD 38,000
Amount requested from UIA Canada: CAD 10,800

Background The "M.A.R.H." Theater was founding 10 years ago by the late actor Menahem Eini. Menahem's vision was to see professional theater operating in Kiryat Shemona and the entire Upper Galilee; theater that would foster local professional creativity in the entire region together with the community through dialogue and social and cultural ties with creative life in Israel's major urban centers. The theater operates in three spheres: repertoire, educational and communal. In the framework of our educational activities we run 10 theater groups for children, teenagers, students, adults and populations with special needs. We also run a wide range of projects within the community.

Need In this day and age, all youth can be classified as being "at risk", since all are exposed to both physical and verbal violence and abuse, different types of sexual harassment, alcohol, drugs and difficulties in functioning during times of war and security crises. The program initiates an encounter between the youth's individual problems and the solutions concealed within them, allowing them to freely and openly express themselves, raise the issues troubling them, and ultimately reducing or even ending the crisis at hand.

Response "Theater as a Force for Healing" was instituted out of the sense of fear and uncertainty that hung over the region after the Second War in Lebanon and the need to do something about these feelings. The project has made rather significant waves in the region and under its auspices, more than 80 days of activities have been held for all Kiryat Shemona and Upper Galilee kibbutz schools, the elderly, the disabled and handicapped, the blind and visually impaired and many more. A groups of M.R.A.H. actors and professional moderators meet with Kiryat Shemona school children for a session of playback theater. The project provides a platform where these boys and girls can make their voices heard and tell and present their personal stories, trials and tribulations. It is also a place where they receive attention, visibility and social acceptance within the school community.

Target population All youth in the Kiryat Shemona area, Upper Galilee, Mevo'ot Hermon and Metulla. The project is built on classes and structured groups of 13-17 year-old boys and girls.

Sample Activity The session is based on a structured series of possible actions for expressing feelings and emotions (including difficult feelings like frustration, anger, fear, tension and hopelessness, alongside happiness, love and empathy). The legitimacy of expressing feelings and including them in the stage work constitutes a vital tool in reducing frustration and distress. During the sessions, personal revelations and stories are related as well as experiences relating to violence, drug use, drinking. The actors immediately present these experiences on stage, where the child can change the story or the ending, choose a different way of coping or any other idea that he or she can think of or imagine. The story can be anything, whether dramatic, sad or funny and may or may not be directly connected with the subject at hand.

Suggested Budget Total Budget: CAD 40,540.
We propose that UIA Canada participate in a pilot program in two schools where a total of 20 workshops will be held. Cost of each workshop: CAD 810.
Total budget requested: CAD 16,200

Background The Department for Youth Advancement cares for disengaged youth aged 14 to 18: youngsters who have dropped out of every formal educational framework. Youth Advancement provides an alternative framework to prevent their sliding into criminal activities.
Need Youth Advancement House creates a personal program to suit each youngster, offering a choice of varied fields of interest. This requires considerable investment in personal contact and in sizable budgets.

• Equipment for workshops: cookery, photography, cinema, animal husbandry etc.
• Equipment for activating new classes: cycling, sewing.
• Setting up business entrepreneurship for youth.
• Individual scholarships for values-based social activities: summer camps, Holocaust history trips to Poland.
• Assistance in maintaining educational seminars in the department.

Response The solutions offered are designed to present a variety of possibilities, ensuring an appropriate solution for each youngster’s problems, for example:

• Educational seminars.
• Values-based social activities.
• Enrichment classes.

Target Population Disengaged and at-risk youth aged 14 to 18, from the region including the following communities: Galil Elyon, Kiryat Shmonah, Mevoat Hermon, Metulla, Yesod Ha’Ma’alah, Merom Ha’Galil, Rosh Pina and Golan Heights,
Example of Activity The House operates at various levels.

• Study level – there is a personal system for each youngster in which he chooses the study subjects that interest him. Many of the youngsters sit for their Matriculation Exams.
• Social level – the national holidays are celebrated at Youth Advancement House. There are trips, camps and desert hikes. There are also values-based social activities dealing with meaningful service in the IDF, violence and alcohol.
• The work place – work places are sought after close to each youngster’s home, and a business project is currently in the process of being set up.
• Contributing to the community – each youngster contributes to the community. There are a number of long-term voluntary projects: “Machshev Mi’kol Ha’Lev”- collecting computers, mending and distributing them to families in need; ancient flourmill restoration; nature preservation.

S Skills – a variety of training programs is available at the House, including photography, cinema, beauty-care, computers, and horse-riding. uggested Budget:

• Equipment CAD 87,643
• Value-based social activities CAD 14,300
• Seminars CAD 1,700
• Fee scholarships for needy families CAD 8,600

Total request: CAD 118,943

Background The Ramat Korazim Regional Community Elementary School is located near the entrance to Moshav Elifelet in the southern Galilee Panhandle region of Ramat Korazim and operates as a magnet school under the auspices of the Education Department of the Mevoot HaHermon Regional Council. It was only in the 1980’s when the Jewish Agency actively began active settlement of the Ramat Korazim region with the creation of four residential communities, Korazim, Kahal, Amnon and Karkom. The school accepts children from these four communities in addition to those from the moshavim of Elifelet and Mishmar HaYarden as well as a number of other communities.

Need This project was born out of the need to provide a multi-dimensional air-conditioning system in the classrooms of the 330 pupils and staff the Ramat Korazim Community Regional Elementary School. For much of the year, particularly during the spring and summer months the school is baked in the strong Israeli sun. The area is without any natural or manufactured covering to protect/cool the children and their teachers from the broiling sun and harsh heat. It is therefore significant to provide an adequate air-conditioning system that will provide a significant improvement in the children’s quality of living and learning environment.

Response The response to the aforementioned challenge calls for the purchase of various air-conditioning systems for installation throughout the buildings of the school’s campus. Note: Installation will be implemented by the Mevoot HaHermon Regional Council.

Target population 330 students and faculty

Suggested budget The total cost for this project is estimated at CAD 38,244.35

Background Moshav Dishon is one of 13 communities of the Mevoot HaHermon Regional Council. The community numbers 100 families that are comprised from 409 residents, of which 60 are young people ages, 13-18 in grades 7-12. It is estimated that 30-40% of these young people are youth at risk. Dishon’s geographical location, its significant distance from neighboring communities and the regional center hinders at best and in most cases prevents the young peoples’ access to recreational, enrichment and remedial academic activities or varying therapeutic responses. Furthermore, the absence of any response at the community level to the young peoples’ needs leads to boredom, idleness and a lack of direction. The results of which are liable to lead, at the very least, to a lack of fulfillment of personal potential, estrangement from their parents and the community and even worse deteriorate towards vandalism, drug and alcohol abuse, unlicensed driving, loitering, violence and unrestrained sexual behavior, etc. Many of the older adolescents, from grades 10-12 have adopted social norms based on dangerous sociopathic behavior, thereby requiring immediate intervention and direction. This phenomenon is being “passed on” by the young people from older grades to their younger siblings in the 7th- 9th grades, thereby requiring immediate preventive intervention. The community’s executive council and parent’s association have begun taking steps to meet the needs of their young people; however, they are insufficient and there is as severe sense of hopelessness. Furthermore, those charged with working with the young people of the community, two youth coordinators and a “garin” member from the National Moshavim Youth Movement lack the professional tools for dealing with the young people they are working with.
Need

• Meet the needs of the young people in the community by means of creating a comprehensive non-formal educational system that includes recreational, enrichment, social and ideological activities for the young people.
• Develop a therapeutic intervention, workshop and process that will work separately with the two adolescent age groups (7-9, 10-12), according to the needs of each group.
• Provide training for the community’s institutions and parents, and integrate them into the activities being done with their young people.
• Connect the young people to the community in which they live

Response

• Encourage an enhanced consumption of positive recreational cultural activities among the young people, promote initiatives from within this group and aid them in developing personal and group responsibility.
• Reduce substance abuse and sociopathic behavior among the young people.
• Increase the level of involvement of the community’s leadership and provide them with the necessary tools for coping with this phenomenon.
• Create parental involvement.

Provide aid and parenting tools to improve parent-child relations

Target population The program is aimed at the moshav’s adolescent age group, approximately 60 young people ages 13-18, of whom it is estimated that 34-40% is at risk.

• Example of activity A comprehensive, wide-ranging informal educational system that includes the development of responses and services for young people, operated by two youth coordinators and a “garin” member from the National Moshav Youth Movement throughout the week. The counselors worked in cooperation with the parents, community council and staff members from the council’s Social Services Department.
• Conduct a workshop to prevent sociopathic, dangerous behavior- provide a proper therapeutic response by a professional, refer young people at risk for therapeutic counseling and follow-up on their progress.
• Conduct an annual training program for young people that would train them to operate an ODT center at the Moshav, including staff training, management responsibility and allocation of tasks. The center will provide services for all of the council’s young people and serve as a model for educational activity.
Coordinate and develop a systematic view of the project for the entire region and determine a strategy for its expansion throughout the council’s communities.

Suggested budget The requested amount to complete this project is estimated at CAD 28,238

Renanim School provides an educational frame work for 120 disabled students who suffer from various levels of disability and developmental problems. The school caters for ages 6-21 and is multi-cultural with students belonging to the Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities in the region. Although located in Kiryat Shmona Renanim is a regional school and welcomes disabled students from 26 towns in northern Israel.

Many of our students suffer from different levels of delays in their communicational skills. This is an obstacle that prevents them from creating meaningful relations with the world around them.

To target these needs we are implementing activities to assist and improve their self confidence and self esteem, which are based on students' physical senses. Participants often experience disbelief as to the level they have achieved.

Students learn various musical pieces and during recitals kids experience performing in from of an audience.
Your gift of CAD 15,000 will help support musical activities for the students of Renanim.
Your gift of CAD 20,000 will help support outings and field trips for the students of Renanim.

Background Mevo Hagalil school is a regular elemntry school that hosts 3 special classes for children with different levels of autism. Kesher (communication in Hebrew) class is made up of classes for autistic children as well as children with other learning disabilities. These children come from the Golan Heights in Israel’s most northerly region, and from the Western Galilee and Sea of Galilee areas. Located within the grounds of the region’s elementary school, Kesher's classes were established as a framework to care for the special needs of children with learning disabilities, while providing an opportunity for integration into the regular classes, for those who are capable of doing so.

Need Children with autism and learning disabilities show difficulty in language skills as well as sensatory and perceptual skills, making it difficult to be independent on a day to day basis and requiring intensive treatment in all these fields. Acquisition of suitable equipment is essential for their progress. There are also other important types of treatment that considerably aid the children's development and progress, such as using the hydrotherapy treatment pool (please see attached letter).

Response Within the Kitat Kesher classes, our dedicated educators and paramedical staff work diligently with the children to build communication skills and provide them with the tools to become as independent as possible.

Target Population Kitat Kesher comprises three classes with three levels of learning.

Suggested Budget Specialized equipment: CAD 30,000
Total: CAD 30,000

Background Mevo't Hermon Regional Council accepted as a primary challenge to provide wide-ranging services to the area’s population with special needs including a number of highly unique activities and services such as a hydrotherapeutic swimming facility and special education schools for physically, emotionally and mentally challenged children and young people. For the past quarter of a century, this has been provided by the Shechafim Regional School for Special Education and since the 2006 Second War in Lebanon, the Renenim Special Education School.

The Hydrotherapy Center is the only one of its kind throughout the Galilee. The center provides personal therapy treatments, utilizing the water for strengthening muscles and bones structures.

Nearly 400 patients arrive at the center from throughout the Upper and Lower Galilee region, the Golan Heights and even as far as Western Galilee communities such as Gush Halav, Merom Hagalil and Karmiel.

Need There is a need to provide hydrotherapeutic activities for four special education kindergartens located in Kiryat Shmona. In the past, the children from these kindergartens regularly visited the center and according to the reports issued by the kindergarten teachers, the work in the water was very helpful in promoting the children from both a cognitive and physical development standpoint.

Today, because of a lack of resources these children are unable to come to the Hydrotherapy Center. Although the kindergarten staffs are interested in returning this activity to their weekly schedule and see the center as key to their pupils’ progress, they have been unsuccessful in raising the funds needed for this activity.

Response The response to meet the needs of these children is to provide them with a weekly visit to the Hydrotherapy center for an hour-long session. The duration of the activity is for 40 sessions.

Target population Children ages 2-4 with a variety of motorical, cognitive and/or communications developmental challenges. In total four kindergartens, in each there are between 8-22 children.

Example of activity The hydrotherapeutic treatments utilize the distinctive qualities of the water to strengthen muscles and bone structure, enhance self-confidence and interaction with others.

Suggested budget Each weekly session is budgeted at CAD 3,76CAD per kindergarten per week x 4 kindergartens = CAD 1,580CAD per week for all 4 kindergartens.
The total annual budget required for the project is estimated at CAD 63,200.

The Second Lebanon War created a window of opportunity to promote the early childhood field via the Northern Recovery Plan. In the framework of this plan, a work model was formulated based on the fund’s experience, and focuses on providing services which are easily accessible under one roof at the Early Childhood Center. As a result of this move, an Early Childhood Center Network was established in the north incorporating 5 centers: Kiryat Shmona, Hatzor Haglilit, Shlomi, Marom Hagalil and Acre.

We are convinced that every child, regardless of birth or family circumstances, deserves an equal opportunity to become a self-fulfilled and productive adult. From early detection to educational excellence, we strive to meet the needs of all children aged birth to 6, focusing on those at risk.

Most children defined as "at risk" come from low-income, underserved communities, conditions of financial distress or family crisis, and single-parent or immigrant households. At-risk children exhibit emotional and behavioral problems, and low achievements follow them throughout school, preventing them from realizing their full personal and future professional potential.

To target these young children, we are investing in early childhood, and focusing our support on the establishment of Early Childhood Centers where a host of professionally-led programs detect and treat developmental problems, educate parents and give children a "good start" in life.

This project entails the following activities: identification of Children with Developmental Delays; treatments for Children with Developmental Delays; enrichment Programs; educational teams' training & Parental training.


Your gift of CAD 10,000 will help buy equipment for the center.
Your gift of CAD 50,000 will help support the center’s program per annum.


Background Upper Galilee Preschool – 29 day cares and in 29 communities.
In the past daycares catered for a small number of children, whereas currently, every kindergarten has developed and grown larger due to demographic growth. On average each day care serves 35 kids

Need Basic equipping of the the daycares that are divided amongst the kibbutzim, with very minimal assistance.
The equipment breaks down and wears out, and it is planned to make small replacements at each kindergarten, e.g. computers, air-conditioners/heaters, tables, chairs and sometimes educational games.

Response Allocation of approximately NIS 8,600 for each day cares - assistance to be granted according to urgency.

Target Population 29 day cares attended by approximately 1,000 children aged 3 months to 5 where kids receive good quality educational service throughout the year.

Suggested Budget Equip 29 daycares at CAD 68,000
Each centre will receive CAD 2,330 to re-equip.

Background The "M.A.R.H." Theater was founding 10 years ago by the late actor Menahem Eini. Menahem's vision was to see professional theater operating in Kiryat Shemona and the entire Upper Galilee; theater that would foster local professional creativity in the entire region together with the community through dialogue and social and cultural ties with creative life in Israel's major urban centers. The theater operates in three spheres: repertoire, educational and communal. In the framework of our educational activities we run 10 theater groups for children, teenagers, students, adults and populations with special needs. We also run a wide range of projects within the community.

Need We feel that the a large segment of Kiryat Shemona's population has not yet been exposed to our activities. By and large, we are talking about an economically deprived populace, whose difficulties and coping with daily life leaves little room or even desire for cultural activities and theater. However, in our view, theater in general and in outlying areas specifically, must be accessible to all social strata. We must try and change and improve their quality of life. Cultural is an existential need and our spiritual nourishment as human beings. And one of our theater's goals is to see citizens of all ages and backgrounds benefit and enjoy local creativity and experience truly professional and quality cultural activities.

Response Many of Kiryat Shemona's streets (especially those built during the 1950's) are built in rows, often called "projects" or even "trains". Most apartments are publicly or government owned. Most residents of such neighborhoods have little or no mobility nor any real awareness of the cultural life going on in the region. The theater would like to produce and direct street performances that draw from the situation and daily life of the local residents.

Target population The residents of the following streets: Sprintzak, Tel Hai, Eilat, Rambam and those living near the municipal market grounds.

Sample Activity Once a week the theater will go from building to building, yard to yard and perform there as part of daily life. The actual show or performance will be designed together with the audience attending at that moment, who will be integrated into the production. After the show, the actors will conduct workshops on theater-related topics: juggling, working with masks, costumes and props.

Suggested Budget Total Budget: NIS 44,000
We propose that UIA Canada participate in a pilot program of 10 performances in 2 different neighborhoods.
Cost of each production: CAD 2,200. Total budget requested: CAD 22,000