Tag is a humanitarian organization that helps communities around the world. It has nearly two decades of experience as an international development charity, deploying unique humanitarian expertise and proven social models to create sustainable solutions for developing countries.
Tag main work has been sharing expertise and building capacities in developing countries. Currently, Tag’s main focus is responding to the crisis in Ukraine.
Tag scaled up its involvement in Ukraine, in light on the persistent humanitarian crisis affecting the country. We are focused primarily on five cities: Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Odessa, and Dnipro.
We support our partners in a multitude of ways, from food parcels to psychosocial support, from special events for internally displaced people to summer and winter children’s and adult programs. We assisted in a variety of infrastructure works, from the conversion of basements into bomb shelters for schools and community centres, to repairing windows and roofs damaged by the bombs, to installation of air conditioning in bomb shelters.
Tag sent teams of professionals – mostly social workers – to volunteer at the Polish border with Ukraine. We established homes for refugees in the city of Rzeszow in Poland safe accommodation for vulnerable women and children. We also help two orphanages from Odessa and Zhytomyr, including moving them to safety and increasing bed capacity to accommodate the, unfortunately, growing demand.
The Leiman Youth Scholarship Fund was established in 2019 to give scholarships to enable young people from deprived areas to secure a place at a Jewish high school, so that they can benefit from both a strong Jewish and general studies education. We now grant more than 70 annual scholarships to boys and girls in Argentina, Belarus and Ukraine, and we also provide a range of other support for orphaned and disadvantaged children in Ukraine and Belarus.
Our partnership with the schools widened to include a range of other assistance, such as providing computers for the children, covering the salary of social workers, and refurbishing a school playground. Each year we sponsor the purchase and distribution of gifts during the winter season for many dozens of orphans and disadvantaged children, and we fund the purchase of new clothes for these children.
Empowering women and improving their health and wellbeing contributes significantly to the resilience and health of the entire population. We work with local partners to develop innovative community-based solutions that empower and inform women and help them gain access to much-needed healthcare. We also focus on reducing maternal and infant mortality through improved understanding of health, hygiene and nutrition and through improved detection and treatment.
Tag’s largest project ran in Myanmar from 2013 till 2019, and involved the wide-ranging development of the beekeeping sector in the country, training thousands of villagers, introducing new technologies and methodologies. Plan Bee still operates now as a pioneering honey business.
Tag leveraged water to improve education for girls in Homa Bay, Lake Victoria region of Kenya. This was a multi-pronged project, approaching the empowerment of girls through a combination of formal education, improved nutrition, enhanced hygiene and psychosocial support.
Tag delivered agriculture-based livelihood improvement solutions that stimulate climate resilience through local capacity building and adapted technologies. We develop the capabilities of local farmers by bringing in valuable Israeli agricultural expertise to introduce new crop varieties, enhance farming methods and improve water usage to increase yields and crop quality. Our projects including beekeeping in Myanmar, Rice growing in Kenya, and drip irrigation in Sri Lanka.
Since 2014, Tag has been running a basketball-themed youth development project in the slums of Kenya, from Medare and Korogotcho on the outskirts of Kenya, to Manyatta in Kisumu.
For the last five years, Tag has been growing its program to support youth in several countries to gain access to a good secondary education. Hundreds of young people and multiple schools have so far benefited. The Leiman Fund has also supported school development initiatives, from refurbishing playgrounds to purchasing IT equipment. Work has begun for a significant expansion to this program.
Tag spent several years (2006-2013) in a range of countries helping to develop emergency medicine, such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Indonesia, and Ukraine. We provided advanced training, provided equipment and ambulances, and help create clinics.
Tag has worked consistently since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to assist multiple communities in a wide variety of ways. We had teams on the border with Poland assisting the flood of migrants escaping hostilities, we established shelters for women arriving in Poland, we supported in the evacuation – and later return of an orphanage in Odessa, we provide food, medicines and clothing for many thousands of men, women, and children.
Tag worked intensively for three years (2010-2012) on a range of initiatives helping communities devastated by the Tsunami, especially Indonesia and the Sri Lanka. Special focus was on disaster preparedness and community development.
