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A service-learning program for participants from across the Jewish world together with your Israeli peers, LIFE (Leadership and International Fellowship Experience) starts in Israel with a two-week orientation, continues in India for four months finishes with four and a half months in Israel and includes a four-day study tour of Jordan.

In both India and Israel, you will take on a tailor-made internship position that advances a social justice agenda through change-making work in one of the diverse fields LIFE is connected: human rights, education, women's empowerment, health, law, and the environment. The internships involve professional work in program development, policy, program evaluation, or capacity building. They not only provide valuable, real-life experience, they also help you explore, clarify, and create options for your future.  LIFE works with exceptional NGOs and government agencies in India and Israel on projects that help them better serve the populations they work with and for.

As a service-learning program, LIFE includes an average one day a week of training, structured learning, and field visits for reflecting on your work and yourself. There are also longer seminars and study trips, and you will meet social activists, intellectuals and leaders. You will develop your social vision, your leadership abilities and your self-understanding.

Living with, learning from and working to advance the interests of people in weak and vulnerable situations in India and in Israel, these experiences with LIFE offer an unparalleled opportunity to make a difference. LIFE helps you build your capacity to access even more challenging opportunities in the future.

LIFE is a project of B'Tzedek.