In response to needs arising from the coronavirus pandemic, the Jewish Agency for Israel has launched a new volunteer center for the Project TEN service-learning program in Chimalhuacán, Mexico City, in collaboration with the Jewish nonprofit CADENA and support from Keren Hayesod.
The new center will draw volunteers from Israel and around the Jewish world for three-month-long tikkun olam projects to help empower children and teens in Mexico City through educational and community activities.
The opening ceremony/ribbon-cutting for the new center was held at the Shimon Peres Park in the municipality of Chimalhuacán and attended by Israel’s Ambassador to Mexico Zvi Tal; the head of the Jewish Agency in Mexico, Ari Messer; the local mayor; and senior leaders of the Jewish community in Mexico.
The Jewish Agency’s Project TEN currently operates in eight countries: Israel, Mexico, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, Greece, Cambodia and Ethiopia.