ORT UK raises funds through communal events to support World ORT in its mission to make an Impact Through Education.
ORT UK also runs local programs, including the ORT JUMP Mentoring Program and the ORT JUMP Employability Programs, equipping young people with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to pursue their career goals.
The ORT JUMP Mentoring Program was created in 2009 and has matched thousands of high school students with mentors across a vast array of professions. Mentors help their mentees to explore their field of work, obtain essential workplace skills, and gain the confidence to pursue a career in their chosen industry.
ORT UK was founded in 1921 as British ORT, to fundraise for the World ORT Union’s international projects and teach skilled trades to Jewish communities trapped in poverty.
In 1939, it facilitated the rescue of more than 100 students and staff from the ORT school in Nazi-occupied Berlin, offering them a new home and creating an ORT school in the UK, just days before war broke out.
Post-war, British ORT provided camp survivors with a range of vocational training from nautical skills to dressmaking. It also established a training farm for those intending to move to Israel.
Brazil
Escola ORT – the ORT school in Rio de Janeiro – is ranked as one of the best institutions in the city, and across all of Brazil.
Georgia
The Or-Avner and Hana Jewish School is a private educational institution under the Georgian Ministry of Education.
India
Established in 1960, ORT India has provided vocational training to the community from its Mumbai base, serving people from a range of backgrounds from preschool to adulthood.