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Spring 2005
The Way to
Happiness
Campaign in
Israel Roars Ahead!
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Ms. Zeinab Habash (right), General Secretary of the
Palestinian Ministry of Education, presenting The Way
to Happiness booklet to Ministry staff.
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Your support for
The Way to Happiness Campaign in the Middle East is bearing
fruit! You have probably heard about the breakthroughs in the
Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.
This is the moment to
tip the scene into peace! Our Israeli sister organization is pouring
on the coals. Production is out the roof – fueled by your
donations.
Here is an e-mail that
we just received from Danny Vidislavski, Executive Director of our
Israeli sister organization, The Association for Prosperity and
Security in the Middle East.
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Workshop on The Way to Happiness
booklet for Finance staff of the Israeli Ministry of
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“Today we delivered a workshop in a
Jerusalem office of the Ministry of Education. It was delivered
by Shuki Mizrachi to 20 staff of the Ministry who are in charge
of Personnel. It lasted 2 ˝ hours with great enthusiasm!!!
“The attendees are high-ranking
staff and were called to meetings and so forth during the
workshop --- but refused to leave the workshop!!!!! They all
enjoyed it and grabbed lots of booklets, posters and teacher’s
guides.”
Just a few weeks earlier,
Danny’s volunteers delivered their first workshop to Ministry staff
– to 50 members in its Finance Department.
Materials Printed for
Workshops with Funds from
November 20th & 23rd
Benefits
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4,000 illustrated posters
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1,000 teacher’s guides (23
lessons on The Way to Happiness precepts)
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100,000 The Way to Happiness
booklets
Booklets
Printed and Distributed with
Donations given in February
and March
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100,000 as inserts in the second
largest Israeli newspaper
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40,000 as inserts in a women’s
magazine
Why Are the Workshops
Expanding
Month After Month?
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Arabic-speaking children at The Way to Happiness
workshop in Kesiefa, Israel |
In four of the last
six months, our Israeli sister organization announced that it had
just delivered more workshops than in any previous month: August-49;
October-68; November-75: and then in December – 88!
The number of workshops is
growing by leaps and bounds mostly through excellent word-of-mouth.
But according to survey, they aren’t growing fast enough! Read on—
Teachers all
over Israel who participated in workshops on The Way to Happiness
were asked, “Do you have suggestions for improvement?”
Thirteen of 76 could think of no suggestions and wrote comments like
one teacher’s, “It was perfect!”
But the majority
had one big complaint – not enough workshops! 62 answers read like
this:
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"Deliver more workshops
faster!"
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"Widen the activity to the
neighborhoods, to families and friends and not only to the
schools."
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"You must give workshops to
the parents so they’ll educate their children."
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"More workshops!"
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