We are hugely proud of the recent graduates of the third cycle of Furrows in the Desert (FID), a sustainable agriculture project in the Turkana Region in the northern part of Kenya. The graduates have recently completed an intensive training course focused…
This year, Brit Olam, in partnership with the Israeli Deaf Association, created a new and one of a kind program of a group of deaf adults who will leave this coming July to volunteer in Uganda. The volunteers will immerse…
8th November 2013. Friday. I watch the news. A powerful typhoon struck the Philippines. Something in my heart moves. My thoughts are with people on the other side of the world, who have lost everything. The pictures are harsh. The…
In December 2013 I began my journey to the land of genesis. In North Kenya, bordering with Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan lays the Turkana Desert. Not much has changed here since the days of Abraham. Most of the people…
I had been looking forward for along time to volunteer with the Muse Uganda program, examining in from afar. When I first entered the school I was naturally filled with expectations. I immediately found the students smiling faces excited…
From Left to Right: Avital Banai, R., Gila Oshrat, Sharon Harel | Sitting in the Tel Aviv Cinematheque at the Women’s International Zionist Organization’s (WIZO) annual convention and listening to R. tell her story about leaving Eritrea and finding asylum…
Ilanit Cohen is a law student who joined Brit Olam in 2011 as a volunteer with the Muse Uganda program. In 2012, she led Brit Olam’s Youth delegation to Uganda, Ilanit took an active role in preparing the group before…
At sixteen, Rim, a daughter to Eritrean parents, fled Sudan with her mother and five younger sisters and brothers. They crossed the Sinai desert by foot and arrived in Israel, where they were placed in a detention center. In…
Sharon Avidar, member of Brit Olam‘s Teaching Solar Cooking Delegation to Tanzania shares his expereinces: “When people ask me why I wanted to join the student delegation to Tanzania, I never understand the question. I mean, it’s a group…
“My name is Qasasa Ayeha, I was born on the 23rd of July, 1973, Mother of two boys born on 1998 and 2002 respectively, but take care of seven children in total. I started living in Namuwongo in February…
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