Mikhall

Mikhall is a support and empowerment program for children and teens with a disability, led and inspired by adults who have life experience with a disability – people who know exactly what It is like to grow up and live with a disability, and who have learned to live a full life alongside of it.

Why?

It’s a fact: People with a disability reach adulthood quantitatively behind others, in every sphere of life. There are a range of reasons for this, but the central and most important one is a considerable lack of basic social and inter-personal tools that are necessary for them to function fully in Israeli society. This lack was created in the wake of difficulties in contending with their disability.

How?

Mikhall is a program for children and teens with a disability, led and inspired by adults who have life experience with a disability. The program was established by three entrepreneurs with a disability, each possessing broad personal, professional and volunteer experience, and a deep and refreshing vision in his outlook: The program’s overarching goals are to provide personal support and guidance to children and youth with a disability to achieve independence, self-realization and to contribute to society, something that will significantly reduce the sense of loneliness and social alienation that many of them currently experience, and that in the future will reduce their dependence on others.

For Whom?

The program is for any boy or girl, ages 8-16, with a disability of any kind (every application will be examined on an individual basis), who is highly motivated to learn, grow, develop and realize the potential that exists in him or her. The personal support process will be led by adult mentors, age 21 and above, with a disability who have undergone a professional selection and training process, and who will be employed in a paid (not volunteer) position.