Our Programs
Managing Diversity Within Schools
Our involvement within the education system aim at developing:
1. Toolkits / manuals around subjects related to the management of diversity within schools
2. Workshops for teachers and students
3. A detailed working model for leading diversity management teams within schools
4. An index depicting the school's diversity climate
For more information about our manuals, workshops, working model an index, please contact us directly.
Community Programs & Projects
Our community programs are targeted at promoting dialogue between social groups, offering training on intercultural sensitivity, intercultural communication, vulnerability and diversity and inclusion.
These projects incorporate elements of saving the environment through the use of recycling materials.
Visibility Matters with 'Benches of Dialogue":
At the core of intercultural sensitivity is the ability of seeing others and being able to "experience" them. However, the main challenge is that many times we are oblivious to others and don't even see them. This is especially true when those others belong to minorities or marginal populations.
Using shreds of clothing, this program brings marginal populations to decorate benches in parks, train stations and different public spaces.
The goal of the program is to raise appreciation for the contribution of marginal groups to our wellbeing and to deepen our current available tools in order to assure that the interaction with these populations is successful and effective.
About Benches of Dialogue:
In socially diverse societies, due the unequal distribution of resources between hegemonic and minority social groups, conflicts between social groups or between social institutions and social groups might occur.
This program is designed to build bridges between the police and the Ethiopian community but might be applicable to bridge gaps and distancing in other contexts.
The program combines a workshop in intercultural sensitivity for a mixed group of police officers and young Ethiopians, a shared picnic for the families of both and concluding with the building of a joint task force to either repair houses of families in need within the community or building community corners in public spaces.
Social Awareness with Pitchu Lanu Sha'ar and Flowers
Our social awareness programs are designed to raise community awareness to the process of "meeting" the other(s) and the assets of social diversity.
We believe this social awareness is needed to develop a more tolerant, inclusive and inviting society, one that becomes stronger by enhancing social cohesiveness and social trust through the celebration of diversity and emphasizing values of love, acceptance and willingness to "encounter" the others for what they are and not for what you want them to be.
These programs are aimed to advocate for a change in paradigms encouraging the view of social diversity as an asset rather than a threat.
In the frame of our social awareness programs we will develop two types of programs: Pitchu Lanu Sha'ar (Open a door for us) and the flowers program.
About the Flower Project:
There are a few organizations in Israel which are the main perpetrators of racist, discriminatory, violent acts. The actions of organizations such as "Bocharim Mishpacha", Lehava, Tag Mechir, La Familia and of political parties such as Otzma Yehudit (before Kahana Chai) and Noam substantially damage social relations, provoque an athmosphere in which the racist becomes the norm, enhance social exclusion, hatred, and promotes violence which have already cost on human loss.
Although their acts are more often than not condemned, there is hardly ever social action as a response. The flowers program covers "planting" a flower for every racist act. These flowers will be made using recycled clothing and hung around the city by scattered groups of activist around the country.
Allegorically, we might say that the project will use the "excrement" left behind by the actions of those groups as fertilizer to grow flowers to spread love and acceptance against hate and exclusion.