Overview of the "Digital Toolbox for Every Special"

During the course of this school year, we plan on distributing more than 2,500 digital toolboxes to school and kindergarten teachers nationwide.

In the coming two months we will provide digital toolboxes to teachers in additional communities, including Afula, Kfar Tavor, Eilat, Tsfat, Ramla, Jerusalem, Karmiel, Tira, Arraba, Neve Midbar Regional Council, Rahat, Kiryat Malachi, Or Akiva, Mateh Yehuda Regional Council, and Gan Yavne.

Also in the coming year we will emphasize distributing digital toolboxes (including iPads) to special education teachers. Our objective is to grant digital toolboxes to each and every one of the 15,000 special education teachers in Israel. It has been proven in Israel and abroad that iPads significantly improve learning among special needs children, and strengthen their connections with their school and family environments.

We would like to point out that our special education efforts are enabled by Athena Fund’s strategic partners: The Professional Advancement Fund of the Israel Teachers Union, Bank Massad, the Israeli Ministry of Education, the Ted Arison Family Foundation, the Sylvan Adams Family Foundation, UIA Canada, and our other program donors.