The Israeli Embassy in Ghana will officially launch a club dedicated to all alumni and individuals who have benefitted from the training of its international Development Agency (MASHAV) over the years.
The Ghana Chapter of the Shalom Club will officially be launched on May 25, 2013, and will include a screening of the documentary ?Kumasi-Haifa? which follow?s MASHAV?s Early Childhood Education programme in Kumasi during its first years.
The alumni club will provide Ghanaian experts and professionals in various fields a unique platform to network, share experiences and ideas, get professional updates and initiate activities to the benefit of Ghanaian society. The event will bring together individuals who have been trained through
MASHAV — in Israel or in Ghana — to interact and network.
MASHAV maintains contact with many of its over-200,000 former course participants through its network of over 70 Shalom Clubs worldwide. These clubs serve as a forum for MASHAV alumni to participate in professional and social activities. Members of the club are usually invited to attend local lectures by skilled experts to exchange ideas and to organise technical cooperation and humanitarian assistance, as well as hold cultural functions.
Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sharon Bar-li noted: ?We are excited to launch the Shalom Club in Ghana for the first time. We are proud to see that our alumni hves reached top positions in their professional fields and in the Ghanaian public sector, and are now in positions of influence and decision-making.”
“MASHAV is training individuals and empowering them to lead change and impart the know-how that they?ve acquired upon their peers. Today, we are bringing all these individuals together in order to amplify the impact they can and should make.?
The Ambassador added that it is heartwarming to notice the diversity of the alumni — men and women from all ten regions of Ghana, younger and older. She noted that some of the club-members were trained in Israel as far back as 1969.
In a related development, MASHAV has launched a new and updated website. The website — http://www.mashav.mfa.gov.il — is both more colorful and easier to navigate. Each section of the website displays the different aspects of MASHAV?s activities.
MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, has been working to improve lives and living conditions across the developing world for more than fifty years through capacity building and knowledge sharing — using small budget to create great impact.
Bringing Israel’s first-hand experience and own creative solutions for development, MASHAV offers technical assistance in education, agriculture, medicine, advancement of the status of women, community and family, and other fields. Since inception, MASHAV professionals have trained close to 270,000 people from approximately 132 countries, in Israel and abroad.
