Parents Workshops

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Parents Workshops

The road to Israel was very lengthy and fraught with

trauma, tragedy and family separation for many
Ethiopian families as they moved from the villages
to either the Sudan or Addis Ababa and then only
later to Israel. Most of these adults then faced the
very difficult transition from an agrarian, rural and
traditional culture to that of a modern, industrialized
society. Today, the majority of adult Ethiopians have
a limited knowledge of even basic Hebrew and
only a small percentage have sufficient knowledge
to support their children’s education and social
integration. In fact, most adult Ethiopians are illiterate
in their own language or have very limited education.
Indeed, difficulties can arise in communication with their younger children who often do not
share a common language with their parents. These factors, coupled with the fact that the
majority of Ethiopian families live under the poverty line and are highly concentrated in poorer
localities and neighborhoods with poorer and more limited services result in deep concern
about the consequences for the next generation.

ENP’s Parent Workshops program encourages and enables parents to become involved with their children’s education by providing parents with the basic skills and information necessary to take responsibility for their children’s education. It equips parents with knowledge about the Israeli school system so that they can step in when intervention is required, and increases parental awareness of their rights and obligations within the educational system. The program also reinforces the parents’ role as an educator and teacher of their native language, heritage, and Ethiopian culture.

Opportunities for Assistance: Involving Parents in Education

Your support will help ENP to enable parents to take a full and active role in their children’s
education.

• $3,440 will support the creation of one Parent Workshop with 20 parents.
• $270,000 will provide nationwide coverage of ENP parents groups.