Partner: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Project: Avoda B'Ivrit: Hebrew in the Workplace

Avoda B’Ivrit offers language enrichment classes to Ethiopian Israelis in the workplace. Today 37 students are participating in this course and are excelling within the workplace thanks to an impressive upgrading of Hebrew skills, a growing sense of belonging, improved work performance due to better comprehension of instructions and familiarity with worker rights and benefits.

Partner: Israel Center for Personal and Social Initiative

Project: “Be’atzmi” From Absorption Centers to Workforce Integration

This program combines preparation for joining the work force with organized volunteering as a way to try out employment in various fields. The program has achieved an 80% success rate in job placement throughout the country. The Federation's support will target a group of Ethiopian adults at the Ayelet Hashachar Kibbutz in the Upper Galil.

Partner: MAKSAM — The Gidon Association for Ethiopian Jews in the Hadera Area

Project: Connecting: Ethiopian Fathers and Children

Parenting workshop sessions provide enriched parenting skills and self-esteem to fathers to help them “reclaim their role” in the family unit. The typical participant is a man with a child between the ages of 8 and 12. Besides workshops on parenting skills, the program offers computer classes for fathers and children together and a drumming class to provide a non-verbal method of communication between the generations.