Friends of Ofanim

Results: At present, Ofanim educators provide over 50 weekly activities in 60 communities, reaching 1,600 children per week and providing over 45,000 hours of supplemental education per year to children who would otherwise be denied the opportunity to learn. In most cases, Ofanim is the only social and developmental resource available to these children, outside of school, which may be several towns away.

Direct beneficiaries per year: 8 mobile labs, 60 moshavim, 1,600 kids

Geographic areas served: Small, weak and remote villages (moshavim) along Israel's northern and southern periphery

Programs: In furtherance of friends of ofanim's exempt purpose of providing educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged children and others, friends of ofanim makes grants to ofanim, a non-profit educational organization in israel, to pay specified expenses approved by friends of ofanim's board of directors. Expenses funded by grants from friends of ofanim include the cost of retrofitting used buses into mobile classrooms and employing staff that deliver supplemental educational instruction to approximately 1,000 students living in underserved and remote neighborhoods in israel's farthest peripheries. Programs include robotics, math, science, computers, and a young doctors program. Continued on schedule o. Friends of ofanim also made grants to pay for mentoring services provided by some of israel's elite university and graduate level student instructors. Friends of ofanim also made grants to pay costs of ofanim's summer enrichment activities reaching approximately 400 students, and providing them with field trips to museums, corporate offices, and elite institutions of learning.