For more than 65 years, ORT Netherlands has been supporting educational projects for children on an international scale.
Maimonides Jewish Community School in Amsterdam affiliated with ORT in 2019, the same year it was ranked as northern Holland’s number one school.
ORT Netherlands’ fundraising initiatives have supported major programs, including the Future Leaders Program, the ORT school in Sofia, and the installation of smart classrooms in Israel and Ukraine.
After the Second World War, ORT Netherlands provided training for refugees from Eastern Europe and Dutch survivors, including many hundreds of orphans and Jewish children with learning difficulties. The number of students grew quickly across the Netherlands and ORT organized courses in woodwork, bookbinding, and clothes cutting and sewing. For most of these early students, the Netherlands represented a short stop on their way to other destinations – mostly in Israel.
From 1948, with the increase in emigration to Israel, the number of ORT students in the country started to decline.
From the mid-1980s until the early-1990s, ORT briefly supported teacher training programs in robotics, establishing a high-tech robotics laboratory at the Technology Institute of Eindhoven and translating some of ORT’s learning materials for use within Dutch schools.
United Kingdom
ORT UK raises funds through communal events to support World ORT in its mission to make an Impact Through Education.
Georgia
The Or-Avner and Hana Jewish School is a private educational institution under the Georgian Ministry of Education.
Singapore
Sir Manasseh Meyer International School (SMMIS) is a child-centered private school that offers a rigorous international education rooted in Jewish values, tradition, and culture.