2015 The NACOEJ/Edward G. Victor High School Sponsorship Program
We’re delighted to bring you the 10th issue of Bridges, In 1997 the Kasai family left their village in created especially for you. Gondar, embarking on a long, Besides enjoying the stories There they were welcomed at the NACOEJ here, we hope you will also Compound, which included a serve as an Ambassador for school for their children, food, adult Ethiopian-Israeli high school education, employment and a synagogue for students by passing this the family. Their daughter Rivka was born in newsletter to friends and family Addis Ababa. who might want to support our students. Your endorsement Not until Israel Independence Day in 2005 will help ensure that more was the family able to immigrate to Israel, deserving Ethiopian teens get starting their new life in an absorption center the good education that is the in Safed where Rivka entered 3rd grade. key to success in their futures. Leah Barkai (left) and Rivka Kasai (right) continued inside Questions? Comments? Call Karen Gens at 212-233- 5200, Ext. 230 or email her at [email protected]. She’ll answer questions, contact potential sponsors, and chat (Right) Diana Yacobi shares a special with you about the joys of high moment with one of her sponsored high school sponsorship (she’s been school students, Leah Mekonen. a sponsor for years). And if Diana and her husband Avi visited Leah you have news to share about and their other students at the AMIT your sponsored student, please School in Kiryat Malachi. let her know. Thank you for The connection between Diana and your commitment to these Leah shines through in this lovely photo Ethiopian-Israeli young people! of high school sponsorship. Photo: Win Robins
North American Conference What Do High School Sponsorships Do? on Ethiopian Jewry Since 1997, the NACOEJ/Edward G. Victor High School Sponsorship Program has changed the lives of 255 West 36th Street thousands of Ethiopian-Israeli teenagers. Thanks to their sponsors, they can attend high-quality, local high Suite 701 Basic high school tuition is covered by the government, but Israeli schools charge many additional fees, which New York, New York 10018 212-233-5200 x 230 essentials like textbooks and supplies and to take advantage of all their school’s educational opportunities. Fax: 212-233-5243 As one student says, her sponsorship lets her be “…just like the other kids.” Your partnership gives these teens [email protected] on page 3 \ www.nacoej.org going on to successful futures. Thank you.
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NACOEJ High School sponsorships are vital to enable From Arielle Listokin, Development Coordinator, schools to give Ethiopian-Israeli students the education Tehilla-Evelina de Rothschild Secondary School, to they need and deserve. The schools themselves Leah Barkai: recognize this critical importance. Here is what some of them have written to us this year: Many thanks to you and to NACOEJ for your From Karen Americus, Assistant Director of sponsorship of four Ethiopian students…your Development and Programming, Israel Market, sponsorship has a profound impact upon these AMIT, to Leah Barkai, NACOEJ/Israel Coordinator of students and their families. For these young the High School Sponsorship Program: We wish to express our appreciation to NACOEJ and its supporters for their continued support of students from Ethiopian From ORT Israel to NACOEJ/Israel: !" # !
The scholarships that NACOEJ provided ' $$ of our heart for your choice in donating to ̺ the ORT Israel network, and through it to the to participate fully in all educational and network’s students. cultural activities…The grateful recipients are We are hopeful that through your \ you have lifted for them. quality of the educational work at the schools we operate…and that the fruits that this Israel…one child at a time. you have in us.