Showing posts with label Youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Youth. Show all posts

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Diller Teen Fellows

Diller teen fellows, one of our partnership flagship projects - a year long leadership program for 11th graders! The Diller teens from Baltimore leave tonight after 3 intensely busy weeks in Israel. They have toured and volunteered, they have worked and played, and laughed and cried. This last week they spent in Ashkelon, home-hosted by their Ashkelon Diller partners, working in the Ashkelon community.

climbing the snake path up to Masada at dawn
Welcome dinner
Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center


Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center
Fun time at the pool and the beach
Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at Bet Canada new immigrant absorption center

Volunteering at the Teen  Center

Completed seating area built by the Diller teens

Final Circle at the Retreat


Thursday, April 14, 2011

Ashkelon Teens pack food parcels for Passover

Every year before Pesach, teens collect basic food items from manufacturers, from supermarkets and from Ashkelon residents, and pack "kosher for Pesach" food parcels, to be distributed to needy families. This year they were joined by soldiers and volunteers, and the Teen Center is a hive of activity as everyone works to pack as many parcels as possible before the chag. I came to see the action , it was like a production line. Teens packing , loading mini vans and distributing them acording to social sevice's lists .


Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Our first MELITZ Magic Moments Project

Last night we held a meeting with the teens and their parents of our first Magic Moments Project in Ashkelon. The meeting was hosted by Marcelo Burdman, our energetic Gesher Hai (Living Bridge) coordinator.
Magic Moments is a Gesher Hai project run by Melitz, where Ashkelon teens will travel to Baltimore to meet and connect with their peers, learn about the community and participate in Yom HaAtzmaut and Yom HaZikaron ceremonies.
Sigal welcomed the participants to the partnership family. Alexandra Benjamin of Melitz explained the background to the project, and Magic Moments Ashkelon coordinator Anat Peled gave detailed information about the project and answered questions from the parents.
The evening ended with a video-conference with our Baltimore partners, only the beginning of a soon-to-be close connection! The video conference was made possible by the donation of internet cams from Baltimore to our Gesher Hai project. Marcelo hooked up the cam to a projector and so we were able to speak to Ariela Lerman and the heads of the communities participating in this project.
Magic Moments Ashkelon 2011 participants with Marcelo, Anat & Sigal
Sigal listens as Magic Moments Ashkelon coordinator Anat Peled addresses the parents and teens
Marcelo, overseeing the video conference with Ariela Lerman and our partners in Baltimore

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Ashkelon teens at Maccabi Arts fest in Baltimore

Accompanied by coach Liza Aharon and producer Hani Herzl, ten talented teens from Ashkelon are in Baltimore, taking part in the Maccabi Arts Fest as part of the Baltimore team.

See articles about this year's Maccabi Artsfest in the Baltimore Jewish Times HERE (List of articles in right margin under MACCABI ARTICLES

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Diller Teen Fellows Summer 2010 - volunteering in the community

Volunteering at Beit Canada new immigrant absorption center
Volunteering at Burton community center with day campers
Helping the Burton day-camper kids make cards in English for their parents
Drum circle at Meitar, with darbookas

Monday, July 19, 2010

Diller Teen Fellows Summer 2010 -1

The Baltimore Diller Teens are in Israel for 3 weeks.
They are touring, visiting their sister city Ashkelon to stay with their Israeli teen partners, volunteering in the community and getting to know Ashkelon, and then participating in the Youth congress at Givat Haviva.
Also read Megan's day-to-day blog HERE
and check out more photos HERE
Dillers from Baltimore and from Ashkelon reunited!
Coordinators Reunited too !
Noa and Megan
Time for Mini- Gadna training!!!
FUN: Ashkelon's BarCochba Beach