Galilee Foundation for Value Education: Neighbors
Galilee Foundation for Value Education: Neighbors
The Center for Intergroup Understanding (CIU) has established 'Neighbors', a new program which enables Jewish and Arab high school students to address relationship issues between their two communities, initially by agreeing on and implementing a public project or activity in their communities, schools, media or elsewhere. This program takes place as part of the obligatory high school volunteering and personal commitment strand, which is helping students take a concrete first step towards shared society.
Neighbors:
- Goal: creation of constructive encounters which embed the shared values of equality, democracy and solidarity.
- Is engaging participants over a longer timeframe than usual for similar programs, enabling deeper connections to develop.
- Comprises eight two-hour sessions between the Jewish and Arab groups, after school throughout the year, as well as three separate meetings for each group.
- Towards the end of the program the groups will concentrate on carrying out their chosen community project or activity, together or separately according to their choice.