Currently, the Zoharim Youth Village 12th graders are on a 5-day challenging trek in the desert. They will walk 72 kilometers and be forced to cope with the desert and its challenges by themselves.
This trek helps the pupils get to know the Negev, with their feet, and to get to know their ability to cope with challenges and difficulties that they often avoid in their daily lives.
During the first day, the boys learned to read a map and the stars, to navigate, light a fire, cook and find shelter; and later on in their journey, they will cope with the desert using their own strengths.
The trek consists of powerful experiences, does not allow them to run away from or avoid coping; and the boys cope with various difficulties, both physical, emotional and social.
Thanks to the intensive coping, the boys begin to recognize their hidden strengths and sense of competence. The trek requires them to make a change from dependency to independence, where at the end, they will discover how much they can succeed in charting their life trajectory on their own.
