Amirim's Activities
Spring March
The Spring March is an annual march commemorating Lieutenant Colonel Hussein, of blessed memory. Different ethnic groups participate in the march. Among them are soldiers from the Golani Brigade, pupils from the schools in the settlement and nearby settlements, higher education students, youth group members, regular guests and others who have come to pay their respects to Lieutenant Colonel Hussein of blessed memory. The march includes orienteering activities, a tour and getting acquainted with the blooming natural surroundings of the Galilee. The activity also includes getting to know the village of Julis and a visit to the memorial room for Lieutenant Colonel Hussein of blessed memory.
Summer Camps for Youth with Special Needs
Summer activities, in cooperation with the Etgarim non-profit organization, intended for children with special needs who are not capable of participating in regular summer camps due to medical reasons as well as financial hardships. During summer vacation 2005, children and teenagers from 12 villages and settlements in the Galilee took part in the summer camp. In addition to professional youth leaders, many volunteers participated in the program, among them students, and youth leaders underwent training.
Centers for Youth at Risk
The establishment of two social-educational therapeutic centers for teenage youth at risk from the Druze community in cooperation with the Elem non-profit organization, for the purpose of providing a standard social framework for teenagers who were expelled from schools and integrating them in various community organizations.
A scholarship program for underprivileged students active in social work and the community in a wide range of educational and environmental undertakings. Currently the organization is working diligently at developing additional social initiatives together with student organizations, environmental groups, educational groups and more.
Relating to the Environment
As educational activity for nurturing the environment and preserving its values, we are planning an environmental project that will commence in the village of Julis for the purpose of engaging teenagers and village residents in caring for their surroundings and contributing to the aesthetic appearance of flowering, well-kept residential areas through field activity. In addition, the participants will attend a series of lectures on the subject of local, national and global environmental hazards with the intent to get them involved and strengthen their obligation for watching over the environment. In cooperation with the Environmental Ministry, in the past year the organization set up a workshop for girls and women from the village of Julis dedicated to clean environment.
Over the past year Amirim set up a conference on the subject of the Druze community in Israel. The conference was attended by esteemed participants from all over the country, students, soldiers and representatives of non-profit organizations.
The conference included diverse lectures on the subject of Druze integration into the IDF and life in Israel, economic development in the Druze sector and explanations regarding the religion and beliefs of the Druze people.
Women's Forum
Amirim regards the female population as a significant and very unique part of Israeli society. Druze women are endowed with many talents and capabilities which are not always realized and put to use in daily life. The Women's Forum set up by Amirim is a source of knowledge and center of attraction for women who learn from their participation in the forum and develop with the help of business ideas social activities.
We commenced the forum's activities with a show of esteem and appreciation for mothers in a Mothers Day ceremony that we organized in the Julis sports center. The event included lectures on the subject of smart and environmentally friendly consumerism as well as a lecture on literature for children and the importance of reading at a tender age.
Women Fighters on the Front: Many men in the Druze sector in Israel serve in various security forces in the regular army. For many of them this entails real sacrifice requiring long days away from home and being cut off from the warmth of their families.
The wives of the soldiers are left at home to attend to the needs of the family and children and take care of their education. Amirim sees in the support of wives of combat soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces an appropriate way of expressing thanks. Among the activities, one can count the establishment of the Women's Forum with the assistance of the IDF's Gadna (Hebrew Youth Regiments). In the framework of the Women's Forum, women go on trips all over the country in organized groups, benefit from lectures and spiritual and general development and are informed of their rights as wives of soldiers serving in Israel's security forces.z
Preventing the Privatization of the Mental Health Services
This year the organization is donating some NIS 40,000 for the struggle to prevent the privatization of the country's Mental Health Services. The donation is mostly designated for advertising and publicity. Amirim sees a supreme value in this contribution for purposes benefiting all Israelis. The struggle against privatization of the Mental Health Services suffers from a very weak lobby in the Knesset and from an especially inadequate amount of sustained activity. Amirim will persist in supporting well-defined social struggles for the general good of Israeli society.
Funding Various Educational Programs in Schools and Kindergartens
Amirim is currently focused on activities with teenage youth in the Druze, Arab and Jewish sectors in a variety of areas, though in the past two years we have been working vigorously in the kindergartens to explain the issues of road safety and safety in the home. We are aware of the great influence of focused instruction on children of kindergarten age and on the long-term effects of imparted messages.
<<Setting Up a Communications Center
Teenage youth from the Druze sector are interested in integrating into the wide variety of professions that are available to them upon their release from IDF service. The field of communications, electronic and printed, is a vital means of developing the capabilities of teenagers and young adults from the community. Amirim is cognizant of the importance of developing and making the most out of the capabilities of youth already at high school age, and accordingly has decided to donate an advanced, sophisticated communications center to the Julis Comprehensive School. The Center enables training the next generation of communications professionals from the Druze population.
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