Meet the family

The small siblings: Students

Our students are amazing and unique.

You won’t find kinder or more hardworking people anywhere in the world. They welcome new students and new educators as if they were already friends. They help and support each other. Some teach in our kindergarten, others stay after class to help clean up and organize. Their actions speak for themselves:

He wants to create a 26 Letters, in his own words, “so that every child can study and have a family”. Now, he works with us teaching English.
When a student said that she didn’t like the princes Tiana, she replied “You shouldn’t judge someone just because of the color of their skin”.
She once said that it’s not only important to be strong here (she pointed at her arm) but here (she pointed at her head).
Every time she dropped her sibling at Kindergarden, she would stay to help out the teacher.
He surprised our cofounder Janira by appearing at her front door with chips and chocolate when he was told that she was having a bad day.
Talking about 26 Letters he said: “before I didn’t think… I don’t know what I did… nothing. Now I am always thinking, always asking… Is this right? Is this wrong?”
He asked us to donate his assigned humanitarian package containing food and medicine to a friend who needed it more than him. Both are now receiving the help.
In a discussion with another student about if men could wear make-up, he decided to prove his point by wearing make-up to class the next day.
Jaden’s advice on life: “Don’t be what people want you to be, discover what it is that you want to be”.
He is 15 years old but was assigned to grade 7, almost 5 years below the grade he should be in. When asked about it he said: “It’s okay because I know that many kids would love to have an opportunity like mine”.
On weekends she comes to the school and helps organize it.
In a sexual identities’ class, he was asked to set an example of heterosexuality. He was hesitant, so the teacher asked him about his father. He said: I don’t know maybe he was with boys”.
In an Apartheid workshop where students were divided between black and white people, she stood on a table and convinced everyone to start a revolution. The whole class screamed “Equality”.
Their mom was the first mom to ever volunteer at 26 Letters.
When a group of boys were shaming girls who had hair on their legs, knowing that our co-founder Tamar doesn’t shave, she said “All girls have hair, I have hair. It’s natural”.
In a workshop about harassment he was asked what he would do if he saw a woman being harassed on a bus. He said: I would sit between her and the man harassing her.

Meet the family

The small siblings: Students

He wants to create a 26 Letters, in his own words, “so that every child can study and have a family”. Now, he works with us teaching English.

When a student said that she didn’t like the princes Tiana, she replied “You shouldn’t judge someone just because of the color of their skin”.

She once said that it’s not only important to be strong here (she pointed at her arm) but here (she pointed at her head).

Every time she dropped her sibling at Kindergarden, she would stay to help out the teacher.

He surprised our cofounder Janira by appearing at her front door with chips and chocolate when he was told that she was having a bad day.

Talking about 26 Letters he said: “before I didn’t think… I don’t know what I did… nothing. Now I am always thinking, always asking… Is this right? Is this wrong?”

He asked us to donate his assigned humanitarian package containing food and medicine to a friend who needed it more than him. Both are now receiving the help.

In a discussion with another student about if men could wear make-up, he decided to prove his point by wearing make-up to class the next day.

Jaden’s advice on life: “Don’t be what people want you to be, discover what it is that you want to be”.

He is 15 years old but was assigned to grade 7, almost 5 years below the grade he should be in. When asked about it he said: “It’s okay because I know that many kids would love to have an opportunity like mine”.

On weekends she comes to the school and helps organize it.

In a sexual identities’ class, he was asked to set an example of heterosexuality. He was hesitant, so the teacher asked him about his father. He said: I don’t know maybe he was with boys”.

In an Apartheid workshop where students were divided between black and white people, she stood on a table and convinced everyone to start a revolution. The whole class screamed “Equality”.

Their mom was the first mom to ever volunteer at 26 Letters.

When a group of boys were shaming girls who had hair on their legs, knowing that our co-founder Tamar doesn’t shave, she said “All girls have hair, I have hair. It’s natural”.

In a workshop about harassment he was asked what he would do if he saw a woman being harassed on a bus. He said: I would sit between her and the man harassing her.