Do you want to help, but aren’t sure how?
This value-based tool for educators and individuals enables you to learn and act: at home, in your school and your community. The five gateways below lead you to many inspiring options for impactful learning and action.
Everyone Counts: The #BringThemHomeNow Educational Toolkit is a new and growing collection of values-based educational activities designed to inspire advocacy and activism on behalf of the innocent people still held hostage by Hamas.
Everyone Counts answers a simple question – “What can one individual do to make a difference?” – and provides avenues for taking action around the Jewish mitzvah (imperative) of Pidyon Shvuyim, hostage liberation. Educators and leaders can use Everyone Counts to engage individuals, families, communities, and institutions across diverse denominations, affiliations, backgrounds, and ages.
The imperative to free innocent victims is a universal value and basic human right that extends well beyond the Jewish community. Everyone Counts also includes strategies relevant to collaborative advocacy on behalf of humans in need around the world.
Educators, community leaders, families, and organizations across diverse denominations and affiliations can use Everyone Counts: The #BringThemHomeNow Educational Toolkit to guide learners toward immediate, effective advocacy and action on behalf of the hostages.
On the Everyone Counts homepage, select one of the five gateways for taking action. Explore the activities within, determine which ones might resonate with your learners, and download the “Facilitator Guide” along with any other materials. The Facilitator Guide can be used as a comprehensive lesson plan, curriculum building block, conversation starter, jumping-off point, and more.
Everyone Counts: The #BringThemHomeNow Educational Toolkit was developed by M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education and Kol HaOt, in partnership with The Jewish Education Project in collaboration with the BringHershHome advocacy team.
