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When Hagit Oxenberg from the Collier Community Center in Eilat phoned me to ask me to join the Time Bank I had no idea as to what doors it would open.  Time Bank provides a wonderful community service, putting one’s skills and putting you in contact with new people.

I teach “English through Scrabble” to help children increase their English vocabulary. Karen, from the Time Bank, helps me organize my paperwork which is in a state of chaos, and in return Karen receives  gardening advice from someone else.  The idea of the chain is that it will continue to extend itself.

It is a great way of timesaving by giving and receiving help. The possibility of my helping others is endless as are my requests for help.  I am going to be taught Salsa dancing and in exchange I will read to the blind and visit a lonely person. Time Bank will find me a handyman.

In this way Time Bank can be beneficial both socially and economically.

Time Bank is spreading nationwide under the aegis of the community centers organization (hevrat  hamatnassim).

Adi is a wonderful young lady from Raanana who has started a “different” Time Bank called Shefa that not only emphasizes the contribution to the participants but also stresses the involvement, social and economic, with the community as a whole.

In Herliya the new Time Bank is located at the community center in Yad Ha Tisha.