Every Thursday, Shaked Haddad and Roy Mor, two eighth grade pupils from the Branco Weiss School in Beit Shemesh, go to the Panim La'Kehila soup kitchen and help distribute food to the town's needy families. As far as they are concerned, their volunteering is a meaningful and natural part of their day.
Shai Friedman and his friends, in seventh grade at the Begin School in Hadera, joined a group of Holocaust survivors who meet every week and contribute through conversation and listening to the aged group members.
Noam Hajaj's giving, a fifth grade pupil in Be'er Sheva's Yuvalim School, is expressed by accompanying a sight-impaired pupil, for whom she has been a teacher's aide over the past two years.
These pupils shared the Morasha Award for Excellence in Social Action, granted at the recent Morasha Summer Conference, along with 33 additional of Morasha schools' pupils. This unique social project has now been operating in Morasha – Kol Israel Haverim schools for ten years, and provides a framework for pupils to initiate and conduct social action projects in which they contribute to their respective communities and to the needy. In addition to the award certificates, pupils and their schools each receive a prize of 500 NIS designated as leverage for additional social action in the coming year.
Roy, Shai and Noam were interviewed about their unique activities for last October's volume of Otiot, national newspaper Makor Rishon's children's publication.