| PROGRAMME | Play to learn; Play to belong; Play it forward, Goals for peace; Maccabim in the “train station” neighbourhood; Maccabim in the community; Maccabim olim to the field |
| LOCATION | Forty sites throughout Israel – Kibbutzim, cities, towns, villages, absorption centres, boarding schools. |
| FIELD OF WORK | education, peace building, social integration, youth leadership |
| TARGET GROUP | Unprivileged, at-risk boys and girls aged 5-22, including immigrants, Arabs, Jews, Beduians, Druze and children with special needs |
| NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS | 4000 |
| USING FOOTBALL SINCE | 1999 |
| MEMBER SINCE | 2008 |
| WEBSITE | www.maccabim.co.il |
The Maccabim Association is a charitable arm of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football club. It has established a nationwide network of football centres in low-income neighbourhoods that offer afterschool activity programmes for children from diverse backgrounds. The organisation’s mission is to use sport as a vehicle to educate and empower children.
The Maccabim Association involves over 4.000 children, with 55 coaches and 30 educational staff. A variety of different projects are run on an ongoing basis, including combined football-academic tutorial centres for underprivileged children in need of educational support and a unique Jewish-Arab coexistence project in one of Israel’s most sensitive regions.
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The Maccabim Association
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Contact
Anat Rabinovich, -
Address
106 Ben Zvi Road P.O. Box 12069Tel Aviv 61120Israel -
Phone
+972 545405285 -
E-mail
maccabim1@gmail.com
programmes
Goals for Peace
Maccabim in the Train Station Neighborhood
Play to Belong
Blog
Jul 17, 2010 | Cross-border Coexistence Summer Camp
From the outside looking in you might have thought you’d arrived to a regular summer camp – kids running around, swimming, playing football, laughing and having fun. But if you listened carefully you would hear both Hebrew and Arabic, children discussing ...
Jun 21, 2010 | Gearing up to celebrate another successful season in Lod
In the center of Israel, in the city of Lod, another football season is almost complete. Lod’s “Train Station Neighborhood” was once completely overrun by crime and poverty. In 2005, the neighborhood’s football field underwent renovations and ...
