Latet Youth Summer Camp

Vision

Latet Youth Summer Camp offers underprivileged kids a chance they otherwise could not afford to go on vacation for the summer, meet new friends from all origins, volunteer and acquire leadership skills to create a wave of change.

*Latet Youth organization is a social entrepreneurship hub for Israeli youth. It fosters the next generation of social leaders by promoting volunteerism as a way of life and instilling values of mutual responsibility and tolerance toward the advancement of a better society.

Activity

Latet Youth Summer Camp focuses on the theory of social change with 2 main pillars: social entrepreneurship and education to volunteerism for at-risk and disadvantaged kids; and building bridges between all the communities composing the Israeli society. Israeli Jewish, Druze, Muslim and Bedouin Youth spend together an amazing and enriching week of discovery, empowerment, debates and social projects in July.

Camp Activities:

Volunteering – The campers volunteer at centers and communities in need of assistance.
Social Leadership – The campers create a social project from A to Z. To do so, they attend a conference from an expert and do a workshop on social entrepreneurship and project management.
Hackathon – At the end of the camp, the youth compete in a Hackathon to elect the best social project.
Identity and Pluralism – The campers participate in debates and panels on the multiple identities and cultures composing the Israeli society.
Fun – all along the week fun social activities (sport, team games and events) are performed.

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I am passionate about informal education as a space to enable and empower youth, and give equal opportunities to young people from all backgrounds.

- Henli Cohen Shenkar

Henli Cohen Shenkar

Henli Cohen Shenkar has been the Manager of the Latet Youth organization since 2021.

Henli has been a part of Latet Youth since 2011; before starting work as a staff member, she volunteered as a group counsellor with Latet Youth, and in 2011 she started a formal role and was part of the establishment of the youth organization in its current form.

Henli is an alumnus of the youth movement ‘HaNoar HaTzioni’ in Belgium, and strongly believes in informal education as a space that enables and empowers youth and gives equal opportunity to all. As a participant in the movement, she remembers their summer camps most clearly as an empowering, educational experience that took her out of her comfort zone and provided a learning opportunity and experience that simply could not be found in other settings.

Henli is a mother of three, and lives in Pardes Hanna.

She is a graduate of the Mandel Institute for Youth Leadership and a graduate of the Achievement Fund – a scholarship fund based on excellence for students who served as lone soldiers during their military service.