Headquarters Visit to Kenya

Headquarters Visit to Kenya

  •   Deputy Head of MASHAV Ilan Fluss arrived in Kenya to review ongoing joint programs and discuss further development cooperation.
  • 11/26/2014
  • Deputy Head of MASHAV Ilan Fluss (second from left) and Deputy Head of Mission Nadav Feldman (second from right) during a visit to Joel Omino Secondary School
     
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    During his visit Mr. Fluss met with representatives from UN-Women to examine ways of strengthening the existing partnership with MASHAV.
     
    The agreement signed between the two parties pays particular attention to women in agro-technology; capacity building and training in agro-technology and agro-business; including the establishment of ACTIL – The Africa Center for Transformative and Inclusive Leadership, which designs and runs leadership development programs in the East and Horn of Africa regions in cooperation with Kenyatta University. Professional programs are conducted by the Mount Carmel International Training Center – MCTC.
     
     

    Visit to ACTIL – The Africa Center for Transformative and Inclusive Leadership
     
     
    Later on, he conducted an introductory meeting with representatives from the local Shalom Club in the presence of Israel’s Ambassador to Kenya H.E. Shalom Cohen and Deputy Head of Mission Nadav Feldman, to exchange ideas to boost the Club’s activities.
     
     

    Meeting with Shalom Club members - Israel's Ambassador to Kenya, H.E. Shalom Cohen third from right.
    While in Kisumu, Mr. Fluss visited the Education for Sustainable Development Project (ESD). The program, developed in collaboration with Israel’s Institute for Education for Sustainable Development at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem, was conceived as a joint-directive between Kenya’s Ministry of Education, MASHAV, The Ofri International Training Center, and the Organization of School Principals in Kenya –KEPSHA.
     
     


    The first ESD project was launched in August 2013 at the Joel Omino Mixed Secondary School, and includes learning technology and physics through water purification; science through organic agriculture; economics and entrepreneurship through the establishment of an organic bakery; knowledge of history and traditional society is gained during the process of building traditional Luo-tribe houses; and by way utilizing recycled materials for art work, the students are exposed to subjects related to history, technology, democracy and social sciences. The ultimate goal of the joint-project is to establish a national network of ESD in Kenya, including setting-up demonstration centers which will serve as sources of training for the remaining schools.
     
     

    Education for Sustainable Development: Organic agricultural project at Joel Omino Secondary School