Sderot Young Leaders

The Israeli version of the Duke of Edinburgh Award

Over the past eight years our home town of Sderot experienced an unbearable security situation which resulted in obvious decline of educational and leadership activity. Everyone in Sderot agrees that too much time has passed waiting for OTHERS to initiate change.

How it all started

For this reason, we the children who have survived over 10,000 Kassam rockets, have committed to take up the challenge and for the past three years have strived to train ourselves in learning new skills, and help generate a better future for all.

We have pledged to take the lead for the rebuilding of both our town and ourselves’ educationally, socially and professionally.

We are strong believers that the best individuals to involve in this challenge are the teenagers because of their fresh, energetic & enthusiastic look on life. Thus our project begins with local children in the eighth and nineth grades (13-15 years old). Our key goals for the program include:making positive, long term contributions & improvements to Sderot’s society and to have its members advance themselves educationally and socially in preparation for the professional world.

Members of our program are committed to enrich, and to improve the standard of living for those around them.

We have chosen to place a strong emphasis on Volunteering and Mentoring.

Through employing these techniques, our members

will acquire essential skills for success. Just as important , for the sustainability of the program, our participants will attain the competence which will enable them to pass on their knowledge to the next generation of members.

In this way we will achieve our goal of empowering

Sderot youth to bring about major changes in the operation of our community.

Partners in the programThe program works alongside with; The Jewish Community Center (YJCC) of Bergen

County, New-Jersey.

The Jewish Lads & Girls Brigade (JLGB) – Britain's largest Jewish youth movement.

The Israel Youth Award (IYA) affiliated with the international branch of the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

The Jewish community of Loughton & friends.

Connections Israel

Mentoring: Consists of learning the program, passing on acquired knowledge and creating the future of the program.

Meetings: The senior leaders conduct 20 group meetings during the year in order to discuss the program and its successes as well as to explore new directions. Each mentor also has more than 12 one to one meetings a year with his/her chosen junior member(s) in order to check progress and skills.

International Experience: provides qualified members to broaden their knowledge of different cultures and to bring Sderot to the Jewish and non- Jewish worlds as well.

The Program

Each member must be actively involved in the Israel Youth Award.

Each leader must personally mentor new members.

Each member must perform community service and establish links with other volunteer organizations in the community.

Key responsibilities/aims

The Israel Youth Award

The Israeli version of the Duke of Edinburgh Award

A IYA program is a real adventure from beginning to end.

It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from. If you are between 14 and 25 and recognise that there’s more to life than sitting on a sofa watching life pass you by, You will love the program.

Three different levels of commitment exist:

1st the Bronze, then Silver & Gold to achieve the award.

The certificate will be awarded after personal completion in each of the 4 activity category IES.

But here's the best bit, YOU Get to choose what you do!

Your program can be full of activities and projects that get you buzzing. And along the way you’ll pick up experiences, friends and talents that will stay with you for the rest of your life.

Instructing and community service unit (two groups)

Communications unit

Combining media and marketing units

Public relations unit

Management department

CEO: Sahar ZivVP: Sagi Amar

Includes:

• Teams management unit

• Fundraising unit• External projects unit

Logistics unit

Sderot Young Leadership structure for 2010-2011

1. Salsa dance teaching

2. Football training

The group structureAdministration

(CEO: Sahar Ziv)

Instructing and community service unit

Team A- Or Peretz

Guidance: Daniel and

Topaz.Volunteering:

Shir and Oryan.

FR Representati

on: Stav.COM’

Representation: Noy .S.

Team B- Sapir Cohen

Guidance: Ma’ayan and

Esti.Volunteering:

Tzah and Eden.

FR Representation: Itamar.

COM’ Representati

on: Liad.

Public relations unit

(In charge: Sahar Ziv)

Responsibility of the leaders

Communications unit

(In charge: Noy Hanukayev)

Website: Noy .H. and Sahar

.Z.Publication:

Liad, Noy and Adir.

Photographing: Shahar, Guy and Shalev.

Presentations: Ravid and

Sonia.Media

Sorting: Irit.

Fundraising unit

(In charge: Vitolda

Nahshonov)

Team: Stav, Sahar .V. and

Itamar.

Logistic unitIn charge: Sapir

Hamuel((Technical

troubleshooting: Yarin and

Ofek.Hardware

and equipment:

Sapir Hamuel.

The group has more than 35 members and 4 active adults. The group is composed from units. Each unit is responsible for a particular subject and consist of one senior leader and junior leaders who are been trained to assume future responsibility for the unit’s operation .

The group is structured so that all the units are interconnected. Each independent unit has the full support of the others, in this way every body is aware of what is happening.In this structure there is almost no duplications of roles, and this method of operation is more efficient and better organized.

The group structure

Administration / Management unit

In the head of the group and management unit stand CEO: Sahar Ziv & VP: Sagi Amar.

This unit is responsible for managing all the units and the teams.

The unit meets twice a month. The unit includes teams management unit. Fundraising unit (includes treasurer ship) and external projects unit.

CEO: the CEO is the top representative of the group and he is in charge for consistent management of the units.

VP: the VP takes parts in the external relations of the group.

The fundraising unit associated with the administration is responsible for raising money to accomplish the program’s global needs and personal needs of each unit.

Instructing and community service unit

Main unit in the program.Responsible on the weekly guidance existence, operating two teams.

Also responsible on the volunteering existence during the year both personal and general.

PPS (Personal problem solving) Team:PPS team is responsible to be in close touch with each participent in order to create a healthy environment and to reduce pressure from the leaders.

In charge: Sapir Hamuel and Sagi Amar.

Team B – Sapir Cohen

Team A – Or Peretz

COMMUNICATIONS UNIT

This unit is a combination of both media and marketing units.This unit distributes and markets the activities of the instruction and volunteering unit.

The unit consist from the next teams:

Head of unit: Noy Hanukayev.

1. Website team:responsible for building and maintenance the site.

2. Publication team:Responsible for distribute papers and writing articles.

3. Photograph team:responsible for documenting the event connected to the program.

4. Presentation team:responsible for making presentations cooperate with promotion team (fundraising unit) and the CEO.

5. Media sorting team:responsible for collecting media, organize it and upload it to the website

Unit responsibility

Distribute ideas and events connected to the program in different centers.

1. Program website establishment, upload media archive and writing articles.

2. Documenting and making presentations connected to the program.

Public relations unitHead of unit: Sahar Ziv (CEO).

The unit is responsible for the preservation of existing external and internal relationships and to create new relations with community organizations with shared interests.

The unit can exist only by personnel who have undergone training and are aware to the program’s goals.

Logistics unit

Head of unit: Sapir Hamuel

The logistic unit is the maintenance unit of the group.

This unit is responsible on the equipment and the hardware of the group. The unit also in charge for the supply and stock by the needs.

The unit also responsible for solving technical problems.The personnel for technical problems solution accompanying consistently to the group activities if it’s necessary.

This unit is connected to all units.

Sapir Hamuel

Our Goals for 2010/11Main goals:

1. Change how young people see themselves and create greater awareness about community needs by devising ways of stimulating social change in Sderot and beyond.

2. Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award for all members of the Project.3. To implement and run a three day course (Leadership Seminar)

for all members.

More goals:

3. Increasing the number of junior leaders4. Expansion to all schools in the city and creating maximum

exposure of the group.5. Conducting classes and cultural enrichment activities in the city,

especially for those who can not afford to pay.6. To advance all eighth grade members to youth leader standard.7. To spread the project to other schools in the area.

THANK YOUfor taking the time to see this presentation.