Three years after the end of South Sudan’s civil war, the country’s healthcare system has descended into chaos. Special treatments, such as those required for children with congenital heart defects, can no longer be carried out by local doctors. That’s why the Tel Aviv-based non-profit organization IsraAID, together with the NGO Save a Child’s Heart,…
The school year is only five weeks away, yet there are still a reported 5,600 teaching positions that need to be filled for this academic year. Most of these positions are in the critical subjects of math, science and English. There are many possible reasons for this shortage, one being the still pending agreement between…
When Golda (name has been changed) visited her hometown of Odessa last summer, she considered moving back to Ukraine. While the strictest Corona regulations still prevailed in her new home country of Israel, Odessa was bursting with life. Holiday-goers strolled everywhere, cafés and restaurants were open as normal again, and people seemed happy and relaxed.…
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton this week unveiled further planned reforms for Israeli schools. Since she already gave the debt directors more financial opportunities and decision-making power at the beginning of the year (the Israeli school system is extremely centralized, so that debt directors have hardly any room for flexibility), she has now planned further changes…
In the eighth year of its afterschool science, technology, and entrepreneurship program, PICO Kids has sent one of many upcoming delegations to Dubai for a 5-day summit focusing on water solutions. Sixteen kids, or PICO Ambassadors, from Jerusalem, Israel met a group of peers from the UAE who teamed up for a make-a-thon at the…
