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ahada@amiad.org.il Tehila BaK 050-5840352 Phone-Fax 04-6909469 |
| Bar-mitzvah - Integrating the Special Needs Child |
| This project for Barmitzvah boys and girls who live on kibbutzim integrates boys and girls from the area who have special needs (From kibbutzim, moshavim, developing townships, community settlments and Arab villages). During the Barmitzvah year on a kibbutz the boys and girls commit themselves to 13 tasks including: security, first aid, cooking, a day in wild nature, visiting different life styles etc. |
| The traditional Barmitzvah year on a kibbutz has been ongoing for many years and enables in an easy way establishing contact between the special needs children and the normal children of their age and contact between both groups of parents. |
| Today the project is ongoing in six different kibbutzim in the Western Galilee, in schools in the Negev where a club room has been opened for children with C.P. and of course we have future plans to develop and widen our activities. |
| This project has caused wide interest amongst Jewish communities in North America and with our contacts there we have developed a model of the project that integrates activities in Israel, activities at the same time in North America finishing the years activities with an exchange program of delegates. |
| This project up till now has been supported by the Jewish Federation and we intend to expand this project to other areas in Israel and to other Jewish communities abroad. |
| We wish to state our gratitude for the constant support that we have and are receiving from the Jewish Federation for this project. |
| Project budget: $15.000 per year for each different area. |
| Budget for exchange program at end of yearly activities in Israel and North America: $3.000 per family. |