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Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims, 09-10

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Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims, 09-10

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Summary

Bringing together neighboring school communities of Jews & Muslims, first time in their lives, for on-going deep and positive interaction. Citizens are empowered to actively shape their society. read updates from the field

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$50 - Will provide invitations for 1 encounter of 100 people.
$150 - Will transport the Muslim group to the Jewish school (or vice-versa) for 1 encounter of 100 people.
$500 - Will cover facilitation and evaluation for 2 encounters of 100 people each.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

This project addresses the Jewish-Muslim coexistence challenge in the Galilee. The existing ignorance of 'the other', enabling prejudices and fears, makes conflicts possible. Participants from neighboring communities, engaged in on-going deep and positive interaction self-educate to replace negative attitudes by mutul understanding, respect and trust. The group develops into a "mini-community" modeling the desired inter-communal relations, growing gradually to include the larger communities.

Activities

We bring together educators, students and parents, from Jewish and Muslim schools, for exchange around issues of their religious traditions. This ensures safe, deep and positive interaction, creating strong bonds between Jewish and Muslim communities

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $9,172
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,228
Total Funding Goal: $14,400

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project creates an ongoing joint community of 1,000 Jews and Muslims. Thanks to working through schools they include people from all parts of society. This group works to generate the transformation of 70,000 people of their larger communities.

Project Message

Coming back to my family sharing my new connection, I found myself talking emotionally…we managed to educate our children and ourselves…we succeed more and more to bring hearts together.
- Ms. Najeeba Sirhan, Muslim Schoolmaster, Project's co-initiator with Ms. Osnat Aram

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dr. Yehuda Stolov
Executive Director
12/34 Ha'arazim Street
P.O.Box 3814
Jerusalem, 91037
Israel
1197226510520
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA)
12/34 Ha'arazim Street P.O.Box 3814
Jerusalem, Israel 91037
Israel
+972-2-6510520
http://www.interfaith-encounter.org

Learn more about Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA) and the project team.

Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA)'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Israel and can also be found under Education.

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When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 30, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 15, 2006

Latest Update from the Field

Celebrate together Family Day

By Dr. Yehuda Stolov - Executive Director, November 30, 2009 12:29 PM

The students of A-Sallam and Kalanit, Arabs and Jews, celebrated Family Day by visiting the Home for Senior Citizens in Karmiel. In the beginning – the home's supervisor explained about the place, the people who live in it and their health situation. She asked the student to accept the old people and treat them nicely.
The students attended various activities. They prepared frames from different materials and placed in them a photo of the group that took place in the event. They also prepared a device for stickers out of plastic bottles and decorated it.
At the end of the day we summarized all the day's activities and all students, Arabs as Jews, expressed how happy and satisfied they are and how wonderful it was to cooperate in such a program. They said they will be happy to return and volunteer with the old people.
We have to note that this was one of the activities of the on-going Jewish-Muslim interfaith encounter program, in which both schools continue despite the difficult political situation the country went through in the beginning of 2009. The most important goal of these activities is to manifest that a person can be dealt with as a person, regardless their religion, ethnicity or color.
The students noticed an old lady that speaks and writes Arabic well so they asked her and she wrote a letter to the Majd el-Krum students.
Finally, the students of the two schools fare welled happy and expressed their hope to meet again in the future.

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