by Moshe Bryski
Chana Stery Bryski, left, with her friend
Miranda
Our daughter, Chana Stery, is studying in a seminary in Israel this year.

As with most parents who send their children off to college out of town, we savor and enjoy every phone call, note, e-mail and text message we receive from our daughter. An added beauty to these communications is our knowing that we're not only the ones back home who get to hear from her on a regular basis. She continues to correspond with her very best friend: a lovely little girl named Miranda.

Miranda is a child with special needs. During Chana Stery's four years of volunteering for our community's Friendship Circle, she and a friend, Mushka Sapo, would visit Miranda at her home at least once a week.

Witness to the Transformative Power of a Teenager’s Friendship

by Moshe Bryski
Chana Stery Bryski, left, with her friend
Miranda

Our daughter, Chana Stery, is studying in a seminary in Israel this year.

As with most parents who send their children off to college out of town, we savor and enjoy every phone call, note, e-mail and text message we receive from our daughter. An added beauty to these communications is our knowing that we’re not only the ones back home who get to hear from her on a regular basis. She continues to correspond with her very best friend: a lovely little girl named Miranda.

Miranda is a child with special needs. During Chana Stery’s four years of volunteering for our community’s Friendship Circle, she and a friend, Mushka Sapo, would visit Miranda at her home at least once a week.

One of close to 100 branches across the globe, the Friendship Circle pairs teenage volunteers with children with special needs in an effort to provide some much-needed friendship for its clients and greater communal understanding of developmental problems.

But what began when Miranda was 6 has developed into an inseparable bond between these three girls. It literally is a friendship that has changed all of their lives.

Article continued (Chabad.org News)

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