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About Us
With help from Friends of the Ethiopian National Project, the Ethiopian National Project (ENP) unites global Jewry, the Government of Israel and the Ethiopian-Israeli community in its mission to advance the integration of Ethiopian-Israelis into Israeli society.
ENP is a partnership between the Jewish Federations of North America, the Government of Israel, representatives of Ethiopian Jewish community organizations, the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Israel (JDC-Israel) and Keren Hayesod-UIA. ENP works in true partnership with the Ethiopian-Israeli community, involving them at local and national levels at every stage of the creation, implementation and evaluation of ENP programs.
We believe that ENP has had an extraordinary impact on the Ethiopian-Israeli community and together, our support will allow ENP to expand and continue to impact a larger section of the Ethiopian-Israeli population.
Our Impact
Itai is in 8th grade at the Makif Hey school and in his first year as an ENP SPACE participant. Before joining the SPACE program, his mother, Rachel, speaks about how she would receive phone calls every day about Itai’s bad behavior in class and how his grades were slipping. As Rachel says, “Since Itai started in SPACE, I no longer get calls about him and he likes to go to school now. SPACE has given him the motivation to learn and to succeed, even in such a short time.”
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