שתיל - שירותי תמיכה וייעוץ לקידום שינוי חברתי

"People who get involved with these prisoners fall in love with them," said Elisheva Blum, a Shatil Everett Social Justice Fellow at Mimizrach Shemesh – the Center for Jewish Social Leadership as she described an initiative to establish a National Prisoner's Day in Israel at a Hyde Park type event last week for all Shatil Fellows at Tel Aviv University. The dozens of students who participate in the Everett, Porter (Environment) and Social Justice fellowships at Shatil each presented their projects and/or organizations to one another and to Tel Aviv University students.  Other initiatives fellows are working on include Cuisine with Conscience of Bema'aglei Tzedek (Circles of Justice,) a project that gives an equivalent to the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval to businesses that meet social criteria; a new web base social network for people interesting in environmental change in Israel called Green Israel and more. "To see the fellows, who in November, have in such a short time reached a place of deep understanding and commitment and are able to present their work in such an authentic and effective way shows us that young future social change leaders are here and it's our obligation to keep nurturing them," said Vered Nuriel-Porat, coordinator of the Everett fellowship program at Shatil. A short in house film with English subtitles can be seen on the Shatil web site shortly.