Civil Service - Coaches for Social Change
This project's parent organization is Mifalot- Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club's Education and Social Project
It operates in Israel
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Best New Project
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A breakthrough program that allows Arabs to receive equal rights to their Jewish counterparts, and at the same time, work for their community. Though military service in Israel is obligatory, Arabs are excluded from this obligation and the benefits connected to it. “Civil Service” is an innovative alternative. Young people who do not go into the army volunteer for two years, and become eligible for the same benefits (loans for studying, mortgages and more) as soldiers. Arab society in Israel has legitimate fears that Civil Service supports a military and social policy they do not agree with and that does not serve the true needs of the individual or the community.
Mifalot has established a viable and fruitful Service for young Arabs: volunteers responsible for building football teams and educational and social action in their own communities. Participants are eligible for benefits from the State, and the framework allows them to serve in their communities, in a program viewed as legitimate by all sides. This program guarantees its own continuity, as the children participating in the programs will later be those participating in the civil service program, becoming the leaders of the future. This is true sport for development.