Name: Miriam
Born: Israel
Residence: USA
Member Category: Immigrant
Marital Status: Unmarried

... to become a professional dancer. I have 5 years of experience in gymnastics and I have taken all kinds of dance classes in the past. I was also in a choir for at least 10 years. Throughout my life, I have been very active in my community. I have volunteered in various places all over the country. When I was in the 9th grade I lived in Los Angeles, I volunteered at the “Tomchay Shabbat” organization every Thursday. We packed all kinds of food products for unfortunate families that don’t have the ability to have a normal Shabbat meal. When I moved back to Israel, I was in the 10th grade and that was when I first joined the student city council of Tel – Aviv. There, we carried out lots of really interesting projects. Such as: On Passover we worked with the “Latet” organization. We gave all of the 24 schools in Tel – Aviv lots of posters, fliers and carton boxes. The fliers and posters had a message on them, it said that we (the student council and the “Latet” organization) are asking all of the students for their help in donating all kinds of Kosher food products for Passover for families that don’t have the ability to have a traditional Passover meal because of their financial state. Our goal was to reach 100,000 families and help them out. I was in touch with them the whole time, making sure everything was going according to plan.

Another Passover project I helped carry out also involved the “Latet” organization. This time it was also for the same cause, I volunteered to stand in one of the supermarkets in Holon and ask the shoppers to buy one Kosher product for Passover and drop it in one of our boxes before they leave. Me and the two other girls that I was in charged of had 10 full boxes after 3 or 4 hours. On Purim, our council carried out another very special project. We collected lots of “Mishlochay Manot” that were donated by different schools in Tel-Aviv; we got dressed up and went out to the poorest areas in Tel-Aviv. We gave all of those special gifts to all of the homeless people that live there on the streets. It was a very emotional experience and I would never forget it. There was one project that I was in charge of in my school. This project was for the sake of all the people who got hurt during the tsunami. I went into each and every classroom in my school and talked to the girls. I asked them how it would feel if they had lost their cell phones, of course they all started panicking. So I asked them to imagine how it would feel if they were to lose everything they have in one day. I tried to make them understand what had just happened to so many people and what they think they could give them that would help them to somehow begin their lives again. Two days after, we had a whole classroom full of boxes filled with food and hygiene products. Last year I volunteered in a needy kindergarten in a needy neighborhood. Every Monday morning I would go there and help them as much as I could for a couple of hours and then go back to school. 2 summers ago I volunteered in a very special summer camp. It was a 4 days summer camp in the safari, and participating in it were 100 Arabic children from Rammalah and other Arabic cities, and 100 Israeli children from all over the country.

I was a counselor of one of the groups there. It was one of the most amazing experiences. I have always loved helping and giving everything I can to my surroundings. Dancing Is one of my biggest passions, when I dance I get a feeling that I can’t find anywhere else. It feels as if there is fire within me, fire that gives me power…not power that comes from control, but power that reminds me that I can do whatever it is I want to do and that nothing can stop me. I would love to get better and fulfill my potential in dance and maybe one day even teach others. That's where USAi might be able to help me. As of now I am paying triple the amount for school, where as an American citizen pays twenty dollars per unit. I love the United States and know that if I have the chance to get my education and develop my career I could do a lot of good to my community and to myself. "

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