with Jordan – grass roots projects such as women's health, women's empowerment, sports etc.
with France – twin cities.

Rights Hotline for People with Disabilities – Bizchut’s hotlines in Hebrew and Arabic offer tailor-made assistance to thousands of people with disabilities every year. The hotlines provide information and assistance to people with disabilities, family members, professionals working in the field and disability organizations. Bizchut’s Mental Health Project aims to bring about a change in the attitude towards and implementation of rehabilitation services in the community for people with mental illness, through field-work and advocacy to change and improve policy. Activity promoting housing in the community for individuals with disabilities also uses the parallel tracks of community outreach and challenging the authorities to expand the options available to people with different kinds of disabilities. Ongoing projects include information workshops for people with disabilities, and lectures and workshops making professionals more aware of the particular needs of individuals with disabilities and providing tools for adapting services to meet these needs.

College for All identifies children with high individual potential and provides them with a top quality, socially-minded curriculum consisting of 16 weekly hours over the course of 10 years - from 3rd to 12th grade. The educational program includes of Mathematics, English and verbal skills classes as well as a variety of enrichment specialized studies in different subjects such as arts, sports, science etc. In addition the children participate in social activities and community outreach projects in their neighborhoods.

o Vocational training
o Educational programmes
o Street corner youth work
o School dropout prevention
o Day care center for children from multi-problem families
o Substance abuse prevention
o Boarding homes

GOOD WATER NEIGHBORS PROJECT The key purpose of the Good Water Neighbors project is to identify pilot communities in Israel, Jordan and the Palestine to raise awareness through youth and adult activities at the community level as to their own water reality and promote more sustainable water management at the municipal/household level; advance trans-boundary cooperation between the neighboring communities in order to exchange information concerning each other’s water reality and seek to advance specific cooperation on common water problem solving issues; and to utilize the results and experience gained at the pilot community and partnering community level for a region-wide public awareness program on wise water use and water equity issues. In each community, field staff has worked in close partnership with youth and adults to improve their environment, and to create awareness of their own and their neighboring community’s water reality.

 The Eden Association was founded in 1997 by educators and social activists to address the needs of the Negev's marginalized populations. Focusing primarily on women, children and teenage girls with special needs, Eden is committed to community betterment and the alleviation of poverty. Striving to bridge gaps in Israeli society, we provide high-quality educational, therapeutic and rehabilitative programs that serve to strengthen disadvantaged communities in the northern Negev
Eden Hostel for teenage girls with mental and emotional disabilities: Established in 2005 –the hostel is provides therapeutic and educational support for its young, poor, and disabled residents.
 "Sweet Future" bakery - The bakery serves as vocational therapy for the hostel girls. Intended to teach the girls the importance productivity, work at the bakery is meant to also ease their future integration into the job market.
 "Growing up Together"- professional training for pre-school teachers: In operation for the past decade, this project provides comprehensive training to pre-school teachers who lack the proper education and resources to be effective in the classroom.
 "Flower in the Desert" - supplementary therapeutic – educational framework for children with physical and mental disabilities: This 5-day a week program provides children with mild to severe retardation comprehensive educational and therapeutic care. The children, who come from some of the most impoverished families in the Bedouin city of Rahat, are treated by a professional staff that addresses their varied and expansive needs.

The Hagar Association was founded in 2006 by Jewish and Arab parents, teachers, and community organizers from Beer Sheva in order to create a community of coexistence based on equality for Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Negev. • The Hagar Institute (currently pre-k, kindergarten, and 1st grade) is dedicated to academic excellence for each student to reach his or her potential. Class enrollment is balanced between Jewish and Arab children. Two teachers (one Jewish and one Arab) are present in each classroom guaranteeing equal status of both Hebrew and Arabic. Religious diversity is taught using holidays for both celebrations and educational moments. By design, classes are small, the school day is extended, and a nutritional lunch is served. • Our community outreach program offers activities to members of the wider Beer Sheva community. These activities include: spoken Arabic classes, joint Arab-Jewish holiday celebrations, bilingual shows, and family workshops.

Heartbeat organizes camps, retreats, and bi-weekly meetings for Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians. Our most committed and talented young musicians perform and lead workshops to bring their music and messages to their communities, as part of the Heartbeat All Star Band. We offer open mics, jam sessions, master class workshops, and performances with international and local performing artists. We also lead overseas performances and encounter programs, such as the 2010 Hip Hop Hudna (Ceasefire) and the 2012 Hip HOpera which unites Israeli, Palestinian, African and German youth musicians, film-makers and dancers to create a transnational Hip HOpera on migration and the right to asylum. Heartbeat and our professional artists community, Jamaa, produce original music recordings and music videos to enable our musicians voices to build trust across the widest audience possible. We also provide music education opportunities in communities without previously existing music programs.

ACTIVITY
Toward these ends, we organized an "International Congress on Conflict Resolution Through Culture and Literature," in Shavei Zion, Galilee, in June 1999, the Second Iflac Conference, in Sydney in 2001, the third Iflac Conference was held in London in 2002, and the fourth one will be held in Bursa, Turkey, in October 2003.
"IFLAC", under its former name: "The Friends of Literature Association", was founded in 1985 in Haifa Israel, and was registered as a Voluntary Association in 1987. There are nine branches in Jewish, Arab and Druze sectors in Israel, actively and harmoniously working together. We hold regular literary and cultural meetings including: Lectures, Poetry Reading, Story-Telling, New Books celebrations, Interviews, Literary Weekend Seminars, Cultural Festivals, Symposiums, Congresses, Jewish and Arab/ Palestinian Students Meetings and Workshops.
In 1996 the TENT OF PEACE was set up in the Druze village of Ussfiya, in which inter-cultural meetings and happenings are regularly held. From year 2000, Iflac’s center is in Haifa, in Beit Pinsky, the house of the late poet David Pinsky, where regular Dialogue Encounters and Literary meetings are held.

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