As part of our year in Israel, every student must have a Trumah project. Trumah means donation, these are volunteer projects to which, we are donating ourselves.
The title of this blog includes Truman because that is what Apple auto-corrects for Trumah. This of course happened in our first email about the projects and we've joked about it since.
After a bit of a drawn out process for interviewing, because the project I wanted had a lot of interest and we needed to be "weeded out," I was assigned my first choice project!
This year, I am volunteering with the Avi Chai Foundation. The Avi Chai Foundation recruits and trains many of the Israelis who go on Shlichut (messenger) to camps in North America. They also offer a program, called B'Yachad, to North Americans in Israel for a year who are returning to camps, in order to help them best communicate their experience and make it a tool in their toolbox of useful knowledge. My role is evolving and offers a lot of opportunity for accommodating my interested, but the main purpose is to help in developing their leadership training program as part of the B'Yachad program.
I am really excited to get to work with this foundation this year. Not only do I think it will be a lot of fun; I expect it will be a great experience for the future and I'm all about multi-tasking in this way!
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