Rwanda: through my eyes
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JEWISH SERVICE CORPS
The Jewish Service Corps (JSC) provides an opportunity for young Jews to serve with the world’s largest Jewish humanitarian aid organization through year-long, paid, individual service opportunities where JDC works around the world. JSC fellows are catalysts for change, creating and facilitating innovative programs that respond to pressing Jewish and humanitarian challenges around the world. Click here for more information on the Jewish Service Corps.
AGAHOZO SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE (ASYV)
To enable orphaned and vulnerable youth to realize their maximum potential by providing them with a safe and secure living environment, health care, education and necessary life skills. Education and service are used to model and create socially responsible citizens in Rwanda and around the world. Find out more here.
THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
The Jewish Service Corps is a part of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). JDC is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian organization and is active in more than 70 countries today. Over the past century, the organization has worked to combat poverty and crisis around the globe.
The JDC was founded in 1914 to provide assistance to Jews living under Ottoman rule in Palestine. Since then, the the organization has been instrumental in global relief efforts. In the wake of World War I, the JDC provided aid to millions of Jews in Eastern Europe. During the Holocaust, the JDC supported efforts enabling hundreds of thousands of Jews to escape Germany prior to 1939. The JDC also played a central role in Operation Solomon in 1991, which airlifted tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in two days. Today, the JDC’s reach spans throughout the world, and the organization is committed to revitalizing Jewish life. Read more about the JDC’s work here and here.
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