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


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


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


Playing in Uganda// Joelle, Project TEN Uganda, 2021
After last weeks succsess playing “rush hour” with the kids during thinking games space, we decided to make the game with them so they could play at home. In this game, each kid has an individual board made from recylced materials. The goal of the game is to move the cars so that the red


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