Scholarship Fund

Congratulating a Scholarship Recipient

As reported on our News page, in 2014 ILAN engineered agreements within the Israeli private and the public sectors, which are expected to result in as many as 100,000 disabled people being integrated into the country’s workforce.

Now that ILAN has expanded the opportunity for disabled persons to enter the labor market, the impetus is on preparing people to fill the jobs newly opened to them.  Throughout its history, ILAN has worked to educate its children, guiding them through school, helping them to develop the skills – and the self-confidence – they need to enjoy productive lives within society, and where possible, to join the workforce.  ILAN encourages physically disabled youths with normal cognitive potential to attend college.  However, those students who want to pursue graduate studies require scholarship support: the Israeli government provides financial assistance only through the undergraduate years.

Generous donors to ILAN have established a fund that enables students to complete a master’s or doctoral degree.  Your gift to the Scholarship Fund will assist handicapped young persons to realize their career goal and to achieve financial independence  Scholarship recipients have gone on to enter professions in law, accounting, communications, art, and social work; a small number have even gone into medicine.

Attitudes are changing.  Whereas in the past, employers were reluctant to hire the handicapped, now they see that disabled persons are not only good employees, they are the best employees − because first they had to prove to themselves that they could do the job.