THE NIR SCHOOL OF THE HEART
Social Involvement
When accepted to the NIR School, the students are expected to serve thier own community by volunteering in a place of thier choice for at least 60 hours.
This provides the students with a potentially life changing experience, which allows them to better understand themselves in the process while changing for the better.
All while benefitting their community, as they map their community’s needs, map their own strengths and weaknesses and design an involvement which assists their community while leveraging their strengths and works through their weaknesses.
Some of the typical places in which our students strive and make a change are:
This provides the students with a potentially life changing experience, which allows them to better understand themselves in the process while changing for the better.
All while benefitting their community, as they map their community’s needs, map their own strengths and weaknesses and design an involvement which assists their community while leveraging their strengths and works through their weaknesses.
Some of the typical places in which our students strive and make a change are:
- Youth movements in which they design activities that are sometimes adopted by the youth movement and applied long after our students left the movement, sometimes on a regional or even national basis
- Connecting between schools, for example organizing encounters between Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Israeli schools in order to further a dialog between the students of these schools
- Connecting between youth centers in wealthy and non-wealthy neighborhoods, again trying to take people out of their bubbles, confronting them with wider realities
- Cleaning initiatives in which our students organized and spearheaded large, sweeping efforts in national parks, beaches and poor neighborhoods, cleaning them, but also laying the foundations for future such initiatives in their schools, youth movements and more (sometimes raising money for it)
- School curricula, as our students designed some lesson plans geared to create some changes in the way students think about different issues
- Elderly homes, writing the life stories of the elderly, often engaging many others in the same endeavor
- Assistance to old people, as they’ve established WhatsApp groups, so whenever an old person needs some help, the volunteers that our students enlisted into their groups go and help the older person (e.g., with shopping, cleaning, fixing things in the home, etc.)
- Refugees, mostly in Tel Aviv, trying to organize activities for them, securing shipments of clothes and toys donated by native Israelis
- Hospitals, mostly in Children’s Wards
- MDA and the Red Crescent
If you think your institution would be a good place for volunteer work, please contact us
When accepted to the NIR School, the students are expected to serve thier own community by volunteering in a place of thier choice for at least 60 hours.
This provides the students with a potentially life changing experience, which allows them to better understand themselves in the process while changing for the better.
All while benefitting their community, as they map their community’s needs, map their own strengths and weaknesses and design an involvement which assists their community while leveraging their strengths and works through their weaknesses.
Some of the typical places in which our students strive and make a change are:
This provides the students with a potentially life changing experience, which allows them to better understand themselves in the process while changing for the better.
All while benefitting their community, as they map their community’s needs, map their own strengths and weaknesses and design an involvement which assists their community while leveraging their strengths and works through their weaknesses.
Some of the typical places in which our students strive and make a change are:
- Youth movements in which they design activities that are sometimes adopted by the youth movement and applied long after our students left the movement, sometimes on a regional or even national basis
- Connecting between schools, for example organizing encounters between Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Israeli schools in order to further a dialog between the students of these schools
- Connecting between youth centers in wealthy and non-wealthy neighborhoods, again trying to take people out of their bubbles, confronting them with wider realities
- Cleaning initiatives in which our students organized and spearheaded large, sweeping efforts in national parks, beaches and poor neighborhoods, cleaning them, but also laying the foundations for future such initiatives in their schools, youth movements and more (sometimes raising money for it)
- School curricula, as our students designed some lesson plans geared to create some changes in the way students think about different issues
- Elderly homes, writing the life stories of the elderly, often engaging many others in the same endeavor
- Assistance to old people, as they’ve established WhatsApp groups, so whenever an old person needs some help, the volunteers that our students enlisted into their groups go and help the older person (e.g., with shopping, cleaning, fixing things in the home, etc.)
- Refugees, mostly in Tel Aviv, trying to organize activities for them, securing shipments of clothes and toys donated by native Israelis
- Hospitals, mostly in Children’s Wards
- MDA and the Red Crescent
If you think your institution would be a good place for volunteer work, please contact us