If you are between 18 and 30 years old with experience working with children or youth, you can be a summer counselor at an English camp in the Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi during the month of July in 2008.

The TIPS (Tucson, Israel, Phoenix, and Seattle) Jewish communities will be running a day camp for 45 children ages 10 through 13 at the community center of Kiryat Malachi, a town of 22,000 - an hour from Jerusalem, an hour from Tel Aviv and 15 minutes from the Mediterranean Sea.

All children in Israel begin studying English in the 3rd or 4th grade, but in an overcrowded classroom, the children rarely feel comfortable speaking English. This camp will help the children overcome their fear of English by using songs, cheers, games, theater, and other activities connected to a theme day - food day, water day, sports day, etc.

The first week is dedicated to an orientation to the town and work with the Israeli camp director and the Israeli co-counselors on the finishing touches of the program. Then follows three weeks of never-ending fun, work, and high energy activity at the day camp. Each counselor will be staying with an Israeli family where the food and the warmth generated by the host family will be overwhelming.

The program offers you a unique chance to contribute to Israeli society; to experience life in Israel as an Israeli; to make life long friends; to work hard in helping Israeli children speak English; and to receive in return the warmth and friendliness of the real Israel.

$1,000 flight subsidies are available.

For more information, please contact Amy at 206-774-2212 or AmyWS@JewishInSeattle.org.

Find more information about the camp here.