Haifa
ABOUT HAIFA
Gender Equity
Haifa is Israel's third largest city located in the northern part of Israel at the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Haifa is one of the most diverse cities in the country, officially deemed a mixed city indicating a large proportion of Arab residents living alongside Jewish residents. Haifa is home to multiple minority groups and many social change initiatives as well as many women's organizations. The Haifa municipality recently launched the Haifa for All initiative, a strategic action plan to promote gender equality in all municipal departments and projects across the city.
SAMPLE VOLUNTEER PLACEMENTS IN HAIFA
The Haifa Women's Crisis Center
The Community Development Department serves to create a meaningful connection between individual residents, neighborhoods and the municipality and aims to realize a wide variety of potential civil involvement and social innovation projects. Yahel Fellows placed in the department assist both with administrative and practical elements around the initiation of projects addressing sustainability and community gardening, creating shared spaces where communities can be involved in different informal projects.
Haifa Municipality
Community Development Department
The Community Development Department serves to create a meaningful connection between individual residents, neighborhoods and the municipality and aims to realize a wide variety of potential civil involvement and social innovation projects. Yahel Fellows placed in the department assist both with administrative and practical elements around the initiation of projects addressing sustainability and community gardening, creating shared spaces where communities can be involved in different informal projects.
The Haifa Rape and Crisis Center
HRCC is a non-profit organization dedicated to opposing sexual violence in all its forms. HRRC provides survivors of sexual violence and their families with both emotional and practical support, fights all forms of sexual abuse against children, youth, women and men. HRCC works to end sexual violence through community outreach, advocacy and educational programs. In addition, HRCC is active in training professionals to respond to sexual violence survivors and address sexual assault in an educated and sensitive manner. Yahel Fellows Interning primarily work with the director of resource development, creating support for the organization, outreach and collaborations with likeminded organizations worldwide.
Beit Yatziv
Beit Yatziv is a Youth Center in Kiryat Chaim that operates as a safe space for children and youth. The center provides computers, tables, and games for youth alongside activities such as leadership programs, a football club, and more.
Hiyot
Hiyot is a non-profit organization for the Ethiopian Community in Israel. In response to the difficult circumstances the Ethiopian community faces, a group of socially and politically active Ethiopian Israeli women came together to improve the community's current situation. Their primary focus is on programming in youth centers and afterschool programs in neighborhoods across Haifa and the surrounding area. Yahel Fellows will assist at afterschool youth centers for Ethiopian Israeli teenagers and will be structured primarily around informal education.
ALEF
ALEF is a Haifa-based civil society initiative under ARDC in Tel Aviv working with the African refugee communities of northern Israel. ALEF grew out of a small volunteer community initiative, in response to the lack of refugee services in the north, and aims to connect these peripheries to the broader network of refugee services and organizations throughout the region.
