Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims, 2008-9

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Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims, 2008-9

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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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: $6,420
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,180
Total Funding Goal: $9,600

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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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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.

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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 December 16, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

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

Latest Update from the Field

Joint Educational Excursion

By Dr. Yehuda Stolov - Executive Director, December 16, 2008 05:47 PM

On April 16th a joint educational outing took place with the environmental leadership of the 5th graders from the two schools – A-Sallam and Kalanit – at Compost 2000, near Haifa.
The students learned how it is possible to utilize waste, recycle it and reuse it in order to reduce the amount of garbage and keep environment clean.
50 students took part in this excursion.

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