Bochurim Inducted into a New Year of Friendship Activities
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This passed week Bochurim who will be volunteering with the boy’s Friendship Circle program got together for their inauguration meeting for the coming year. The Friendship Circle is a program which peers boy with special needs with young Bochurim to be their friends.
The new volunteers got some background and training from Gedalia Wielgus, who runs the HASC program in Crown Heights, which covered how the world used to deal with special needs children and adults by killing them or locking them away out of fear, and how the Nazis first victims of experiments were the special needs people. He then went into how the world evolved and began researching, treating and providing structure for both the kids themselves and their families.
Wielgus explained how logic does not apply to these children and gave tips on how to deal with them, and give proper positive support.
The Bochurim then heard from Rabbi Mendel Nemes of the Jewish Childrens Museum about how special they, the Bochurim, are for taking on such volunteer work. He went on to speak about how even families in Anash were scared and embarrassed of their own special needs children and tried to keep it a secret, but we have come along way he concluded with a Dvar Torah relating to the matter.
“This is the start of a great year that we will have with our boys volunteers” said Chayaleh Eckhouse, director of the Friendship Circle in Crown Heights.
If you are a Bochur in Crown Heights and are willing to volunteer please email Yaakov Wilansky, coordinator of the boys program, at yaakovw@jcm.museum.
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Yaaaay Yaakov, we so proud of u!!!!
Still waiting ror my doughnut :) :)
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Yaakov, now they are all coming after you.
Keep up the good work ,but dont let it take off
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TRAX!!! you da man..
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trax!!! ytou do amazing work! yaccov u rok my man! u give the best hair cuts and all! humor and inspiration to all around u!
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You go Hafticater, Rabbi Jay!
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GEDALIA WIELGUS IS THE MAN!!!!!!!!
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No comment :-) Yaakov, you’re……….never mind, it’ll be an understatement’