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In August 2009, a group of young adults went on the first NACOEJ Young Leadership Mission to Ethiopia and Israel. Sam Bodenheimer, CEO of Spicerack Music and one of the participants on the trip, was concerned about the circumstances in which the Ethiopian children live in both countries. Inspired by what is being done to help them, PROJECT TESFA was born.

  


Sam "Bodi" Bodenheimer
in Gondar, Ethiopia.
August 2009

PROJECT TESFA (Amharic for “hope”) is a Spicerack initiative facilitated through NACOEJ to provide critically needed education to Ethiopian children living in Israel.

Limudiah: Intensive After-School Education and Lunch Program for Ethiopian Children in Israel

Only 35% Ethiopian-Israeli first graders read at grade level. Provided with intensive academic help for ten to twelve hours each week, and with textbooks and hot lunches, up to 90% of Ethiopian-Israeli first-graders in NACOEJ Limudiah Programs read at grade level.
 

 

$36 provides textbooks for at least two Ethiopian elementary school children in Israel
$360 provides lunches for an Ethiopian child for a full school year in the Limudiah intensive after-school education program in Israel.
$1,400 provides education and lunches to an Ethiopian child for a full school year in the Limudiah intensive after-school education program in Israel.