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The project was founded in the midst of the Corona crisis by students from the "Rabin Leadership" program, headed by Maj. Gen. (res.) Yoram Yair (Ya), at Reichman University.
At the beginning of the first lockdown, we realized that the State of Israel was facing a national crisis, and we felt the need to step in and help in any way possible. We decided to focus on students who were left at home without educational frameworks. Through social networks, we connected volunteers with students from all over the country, and each volunteer gave a private online lesson. The activity was a great success.
At the end of the first lockdown, we received many requests from parents and teachers across the country, who indicated an urgent need for such an activity. There are thousands of students for whom individual support and personal guidance are not accessible. We saw this as an opportunity to contribute to the national mission of reducing social gaps, and we understood that we had to start from the bottom, from the basics: from the elementary grades.
Thus, we established the association, which aims to provide individual assistance and personal guidance to elementary school students in the economic-geographic periphery. We have established a broad and committed volunteer network, and thanks to online classes, our volunteers can reach students from all over the country.
Since then, we have expanded to more than 15 municipalities and have taught classes to thousands of students over the years.
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Strengthening Israel's social periphery
4.9.2023 / 13:37
A fundraising campaign by the I-school association, which works to equalize opportunities for students from the socio-geographic periphery by providing private lessons, was launched. A festive launch event was held this weekend for the I-school association's fundraising campaign.
Dana Harel, Alon Veseli, Uri Knafo, Gal Ashur, Shira Amir, and Liora Bergwerk met during their degree studies, where they were exposed to the difficulty of students from the periphery to integrate into the labor market due to gaps in education. During the Corona period, they founded the I-school association, which connects people from the center in key positions in the labor market (high-tech workers, lawyers, etc.), and students from the periphery with complex socio-economic backgrounds.
These meet with them on a weekly basis and give them private lessons in English and math. So far, thousands of students and thousands of volunteers have gone through the program, and now, with the start of the school year, the organization is embarking on a mass recruitment drive with the aim of reaching all schools in the periphery and increasing the pool of volunteers.
To the article on walla.co.il
