School usually is boring. Sure there are friends but nearly all schools have a very defined syllabus and classes have a strict schedule. Most kids are not that excited about rising up in the morning and getting ready to face the monotonous schedule.
This morning I learnt about Siach. It means "dialogue" in Hebrew. Located in Klil, a small village in Israel - Siach is not your regular school.
Acoording to the Siach website :
Siach is not a school in its usual meaning. It is more of a community, an extended family, a village for children; a place where children may live their life fully. Just the same as with adults, the life is experienced through and around the various members in the community, depending on their personalities, abilities and choices. In this aspect Siach provides the stage and setting for the personal life journey of each.
The pressing problems of the society today are not lack of knowledge or professional qualification, but of the internal quality of life. Violence; communication difficulties; self dissatisfaction; loneliness and isolation; lack of belonging; all these are the expressions of the post-modernist society life and of the fact that we are, largely, untaught in the art of living, in social skills. Siach focuses on teaching the art of living. It is about education and not about learning. Learning occurs naturally, when the conditions are right and without disturbance.
Siach has 3 teachers right now and 23 students. The village school wants to hire another teacher and launched a crowdfunding project today. The aim is to collect $ 25,000 before August 16th.
Think you can help? Please visit Siach.
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