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Volunteer Stories

My Life Changing Time on Kibbutz Harduf/ Sylvia Coopersmith, Project TEN Alumni

It feels more than coincidental that I found myself living and working in the most special corner of the earth. Directly before arriving at Project TEN in Harduf, I had just completed my undergraduate degree at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. My concentration was focused on the fields of Child Development, Performance …

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Volunteering with Project TEN: A New View on Being a Child// Noy Gershoni, Project TEN Mexico 2021

While volunteering with Project TEN in Mexico I noticed the reality is that kids raise their little siblings, kids do laundry and wash dishes and kids also move between strangers and stand in busy junctions begging for money. I could not help but wonder if the children who are supposed to arrive to our next …

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Teacher Seminar in Ghana/ Hila, Project TEN Ghana volunteer, November 2021

This week, our Teachers seminar was held at Project TEN Ghana. A seminar that aims to provide teachers in the schools we work with with tools for good communication with the child and optimizing the transfer of lessons, methods and knowledge. On the morning of the seminar, each teacher had a notebook and a pen …

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Cheers For Reading/ Tamar Gafni, Volunteer Project TEN Ghana, 2021

“While the rest of the group continued reading by themselves books from our library, I sat with a child for a one-on-one session and taught him the ABC. I did not have to work too hard, he listened to me with great interest and with endless attention. The child eagerly sipped every drop of knowledge …

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Volunteering with Project TEN Mexico: Beyond the Language Barrier!// Dana Levanon

The language challenge was the thing that worried me the most when I got here. I have been involved in training and mentoring children of all ages my whole life. I wanted to use my tools of years of work while meeting the new community in Mexico for the first time! For the first few …

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Project TEN Take Out/ Madva, Project TEN Uganda, July 2021

“Due to the Covid-19 pandemic there are new guidelines in Uganda. Schools and other institutions were closed this week for 42 days. We decided not to let the children of our community sit at home bored! We opened a “take away” service! We are distributing boxes with activities to the children’s homes in the neighborhood. …

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Hearing Hebrew on the streets of Namulanda/ Tamar Gonen, Project TEN Volunteer Uganda, 2021

“During one of the walks to school on our first days of the project, a group of African boys walked towards us, and before we knew it, our director began to speak to them enthusiastically in Hebrew. We could not understand what was happening and couldn’t believe what we were hearing! This was the first …

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