Empowering people with Special Needs

The generous support from the GlobalGiving Community has empowered Eitan-Everybody Can! to extend its model for the benefit of individuals with cognitive disabilities across Israel.
We're happy to share the success of Eitan-Everybody Can in 2024, marked by continued growth and program expansion, supporting individuals with autism nationwide.

To date, our team of over 150 professional trainers and volunteers is guiding more than 650 individuals across 50 locations. To broaden our impact, throughout the year we broadened our marketing efforts and formed new partnerships with municipalities and schools across the country, aiming to establish additional training teams in Israel's periphery. Training sessions have commenced in schools, and we're preparing infrastructure for the upcoming school year. We now have over 400 trainees at the schools.

Over the past year, we have also expanded into the Haifa area. This area has been heavily affected by sirens and rockets, but thanks to our strong team working there, we've been able to maintain a regular training routine for our trainees."

The Eitanim project is a program for young adults with autism. Trainees who demonstrate both potential and enthusiasm are given the opportunity to enroll in a trainer certification course. Upon completion, they are eligible to work as trainers, both within Eitan and beyond, opening doors to a rewarding career path. The second program of the Eitanim project has been completed, during which around eight trainees were trained to become assistant coaches in the various groups within the organization.

The demand for our services in Israel is steadily growing, prompting us to seek new partners and supporters. Our ongoing mission is to ensure that all Israelis with special needs can access professional fitness training, directly improving their quality of life.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the GlobalGiving Community for your generous support, and we are looking forward to continuing our partnership.

Links:

• eitanrun!

• eitan photos (PDF)
  

We are happy to report that Eitan-Everybody Can started 2024 on a great way. We are continuing to grow and expand our core-programs, supporting the disabled community in Israel Israel socio-geographic periphery. To date our teams of trainers, professionals and volunteers exceed 150 persons in over 50 locations throughout the country, and we are working with close to 600 disabled individuals.

Like many of our peers in the nonprofit sector, Eitan has harnessed its infrastructure for the benefit of the evacuees during the current crisis. We have been conducting training sessions in the major evacuation centers across Israel, serving hundreds of evacuees. Our activities were available to evacuees with or without special needs. We consider ourselves fortunate to be able to help the evacuees in this difficult hour.

In addition, as part of the activities of the month of awareness for people with special abilities, on December 2, we did 'Stracher March' in memory of Noya Dan and Ruth Peretz, girls with special abilities who were massacred on the Black Sabbath of October. 150 people with and without disabilities took part in the significant and exciting event.

This past April, the annual Eitan run took place and it was a great success. This was the 6 th run since we started the tradition and each year more and more individuals participate.

We are also moving forward with plans for expansion and establishing more training teams in Israel's periphery as well as collaborating with various schools across the country.

We are also in the midst of launching our services in the Haifa region and engaging hundreds
of disabled individuals from the northern part of Israel in our activities. As more people are becoming aware of the benefits of our programs, the demand for our services is continuously growing and we are constantly looking for new partners and supporters to ensure that all Israelis with special needs are able to benefit from professional fitness training.

Links:

• EitanRun 6!
• The Jerusalem Post
• EITAN X NIKE

• EITAN PHOTOS (PDF)