Stichting Nes Ammim Nederland

Nes Ammim is a village in North-Israel with an international, ecumenical Christian community. The members (40 people) strive to be a community of people who live and work together - mainly on a voluntary basis - alongside other Israeli inhabitants, Jews and Arabs. Encounter, dialogue, learning and hospitality are the keywords. Founded in 1963 the pioneers tried to break with the old ‘christian’ antisemitism. Nowadays the mission has been widener: to live and study with all the inhabitants of Israel, Jews and Arabics. The village is being support by European christians and churches. The European volunteers stays 9 months in N.A., most of them are young people, just the first year after school. They works in the Guesthouse that generate the incomes for maintenance the village. They follow a studyprogram about land, history, cultural and religious diversity, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In the village is the Centre of Learning and Dialogue, with 5 European volunteers. The Centre is being support (financially) bij de Stichting Nes Ammim Nederland and bij churches in the Netherlands and Germany. Their budget is € 40.000. The Centre facilitate, subsidize and co-organize dialogue-projects for Galilee-inhabitants, especially young people and teachers of bilingual schools: dialogue-seminars, summercamps, studies.