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Pate Fourteen
TUB 80CTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, June 12, 1964
Israel Trains Africans
In Modern Skills
by Ya’akov Eshel
In 1960 a young man from Ghana
came to Israel to study mechanics
at the ORT school in Natanya. He
finished his course there and went methodology of teaching
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on to the Technioe in Haifa to work
for an engineering degree.
He was the first African student
at the ORT School A year later the
number was 76.
The ten-acre campus in the indus
trial zone of Natanya, with its im
pressive workshops, auditoriums,
gymnasium and dormitory, all set
among lawns, now contains also the
African Centre, a vocational school
which is part of ORT but forms a
special unit for the training of Afri
can students in woodwork, mechan
ics, electro-mechanics and agro-
mechanics.
The head of the centre is Dr. David
Goldhill, who before settling in Israel
was a consulting engineer for many
years in a number of African coun
tries.
His students come from 19 African
countries. Dr. Goldhill who has had
a vast experience in teaching, says
that he has never come across such
a hunger for knowledge, such a
determination to learn as fast as
possible as among the students at
the centre.
Although the curriculum is extreme
ly demanding, some students even
take on additional burdens, such as
correspondence courses, or study a
language. They all learn Hebrew,
though the courses are in English
or French, so as to be able to com
municate with everybody around
them. The students also have a
voracious appetite for books.
The reasons for this extraordinary
desire for learning are many. At the
base is that passion found among
Africans today to make up for cen
turies of neglect, a passion which
is inherent in the movement now
transforming the African continent.
Then, there is a sense of national
pride—each student wants to show
that he can do at least as well as
his colleague from another country
And there is another sort of pride:
Africans now study all over the
world, and the students in Natanya
feel that when they go back home
they will have to show that the
training they received in Israel was
as good or better than that else
where. They develop a sort of Is
raeli patriotism after they have
!>oen here for some time.
The African centre was organiz
ed on the initiatve of the Foregn
Ministry's Department for Interna
tional Cooperation. Its basic purpose
is to supply to developing countries
the basic kind of manpower needed
for industrialization—instructors in
trades.
The students are undergoing a
three-year course, after which they
will become certified. The Instruc
tors' Course, as the two last years
is called, includes the study of the
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Morning Till Midnight
The official working day at the
African Centre begins at 7:45 a. m.
and continues till 3:45 in the after
noon, with a break for lunch. Then
there is homework, with some of
the students working at it until
midnight. There is no work on Sat
urday, and Christian students are
given Sunday mornings off to go to
church. There are classes—no work
shop activities — on Sunday after
noons. Moslems are off on Friday so
that they can attend services at a
mosque in Tel Aviv.
The sturlents hove been selected
by their respective governments and
approved by their respective govern
ments and approved by representa
tives of the Department of Interna
tional Cooperation The basic re
requirements for a candidate are that
he is between the ages of 18 and
25, has completed at least 12 years
of schooling, and posseses a good
working knowledge of English or
French
All students live in the dormitory
on the campus, eat in the school
dining room and get 1L55 pocket
money a month Medical attention
is available.
The first graduates of the full
throe-year course will be going home
in 1964 Only after that will the staff
be able to judge the real effective
ness of their efforts—whether the
training they provided will meet the
practical need for the countries from
which the graduates have come.
On our way from the centre to
town we gave a lift to a student of
electro-mechanics from West Africa
We discussed his future, and he
told us he saw it as a great chal
lenge—to help his country to be
come industrialized by doing the
work for which he is being trained.
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