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An Introduction to Kadima Mada “Science and Technology together form the foundation stone of the Israeli system of education,” said World ORT President Sir Maurice Hatter. “World ORT plans to commit these substantial funds to the advancement and encouragement of excellence in high schools and further education and training programmes throughout Israel. We intend to do all that is necessary to establish the programme, extend its activities and ensure its success in the coming years.” The Israeli Ministry of Education has praised World ORT’s willingness to allocate funds in this area and be partners in this broad-ranging project. Sir Maurice added: “We are very pleased to be working so closely with the Ministry of Education and are delighted that the Ministry will work closely in partnership with World ORT to secure the highest level of educational activities for the children.” Kadima Mada marks an expansion of World ORT’s already substantial activities in Israel. Last year, World ORT raised nearly $3 million for the Israel Emergency Campaign, thanks to the UJC, American donors who generously participated through their local Jewish Federations, and ORT supporters who gave through their national ORT organisations. The money is helping children and families affected by Hezbollah aggression by funding extra tuition and post-trauma counselling as well as paying to improve the educational environment and for educational necessities such as text books. In 2005, World ORT brought its long-standing cooperation with the Hewlett-Packard Corporation to Israel with the opening of a Micro- enterprise Acceleration Programme Centre in Kiryat Bialik. The centre provides training for Jewish and Arab women in the north of the country to enable them to develop new economic and cultural opportunities. And it was a World ORT campaign, strongly supported by ORT’s friends around the world, which led to the foundation in 1989 of the ORT Braude College of Engineering in Karmiel. The college is now one of northern Israel’s leading tertiary institutions offering a range of international standard technical and scientific degrees. World ORT, founded in 1880, is the world’s largest Jewish education and vocational training non-government organisation with some 200,000 beneficiaries – Jewish and non-Jewish – in 58 countries. * Source: World ORT Update, September 2009 |
