In 2004, only 19% of Ethiopian-Israeli seniors passed their high school completion exams, compared to 56% of the total Jewish population. In 2006, 32% of Ethiopian-Israeli seniors who attended high schools with ENP programs tested well enough to get into college.

By 2008, Jack Habib, Director of the Myers-JDC Brookdale Institute, said that ENP has made an enormous contribution, bringing to a stop and reversing negative trends, such as dropout rates, delinquency and flat college attendance.

The challenge today. Even with all this success, ENP is struggling to meet its mission ... serving only 8,000 out of 16,000 students who could benefit from its programs, and going into the new 2008-09 school year, programs for 4,000 of the currently funded kids are in jeopardy.

Do something now to make sure these kids are not left behind. Become part of the ENP Effect.

For more information about the program, click here for the ENP website.

Contact Grace_enpcontact@JewishFederations.org.il or nikki.friedman@JewishFederations.org.
To donate now, see below. Donors are encouraged to read our Charitable Solicitation Disclosure Statement.

To donate by check, please make the check out to Jewish Federations of North America and clearly mark Ethiopian National Project on the bottom of the check. The check should be sent to:

Nikki Friedman
Executive Director Operations
JFNA Overseas Supplemental Giving/IEF
25 Broadway, Suite 17003
New York, NY 10004-1010
Attention: Ethiopian National Project

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