Since its inception, ORT Chile has provided support to the government, to local businesses, and to 500 schools and institutions in the country, helping to educate hundreds of thousands of students.
ORT Chile has become even more involved in supporting the wider local community and its work has attracted widespread acclaim and support.
ORT Chile became active in the Second World War supporting refugees who needed vocational training in order to find work. The first school opened in 1944 in Santiago with 42 students, offering technical and general education classes.
In the 1970s, ORT Chile began working with Vaad HaChinuch to introduce its science and technology programs into Jewish schools. These have grown through the years to include seminars and courses for students and adults, teacher training and Jewish education.
In 1995, ORT Chile started working with the Coca-Cola Foundation on a network of science education centers (the Tavec project). These provided state-of-the-art science and technology laboratories together with an educational infrastructure, training programs and technical support.
Costa Rica
More than 60 years ago, the Instituto Dr. Jaim Weizman was established in Costa Rica’s capital, San José. The school joined the ORT network in 2022 as an affiliate school.
Moldova
The ORT Binyamin Zeev Herzl Theoretical Lyceum of Kishinev is a public educational institution delivering instruction in Russian.
Ukraine
ORT Ukraine supports more than 7,000 students across five ORT schools, two ORT-affiliated schools, and eight non-Jewish institutions around the country.