Global campaign to draw attention to moral and spiritual gifts of children with special needs
Brooklyn, NY — Everyone knows that volunteers make a difference. But what people do not yet know is that children with special needs also make a difference.
That's the motivation behind Imprint the World—a global awareness campaign to draw as much public attention as possible to the gifts children with special needs give to the world around them.
International Awareness Campaign – Imprint the World
Global campaign to draw attention to moral and spiritual gifts of children with special needs
Brooklyn, NY — Everyone knows that volunteers make a difference. But what people do not yet know is that children with special needs also make a difference.
That’s the motivation behind Imprint the World—a global awareness campaign to draw as much public attention as possible to the gifts children with special needs give to the world around them.
Imprint the World, which launched on February 25th is a volunteer-conceived campaign of the Friendship Circle, a rapidly-growing global teen volunteer organization that helps children with special needs and their families.
Campaign volunteers are enlisting public officials and celebrities, writing essays in local papers and speaking at public events to recognize the imprint that children with special needs make on society. They are also promoting volunteering and general awareness in their communities by recruiting new volunteers, distributing droves of Friendship Circle logo magnets and wearing the campaign’s trademark green t-shirts emblazoned with symbolic handprints.
Founded in 1994 the Friendship Circle’s thousands of volunteers at its 62 American and international chapters have given their special friends hours of visiting time for play and therapy.
But more important than that, their special friends have responded with contributions of their own: Unconditional love and acceptance, optimistic attitudes, and increased patience, compassion, giving and friendliness on their volunteers’ part.
“Volunteering has taught me how to not be selfish and to really be considerate to everyone,” says Allyson Feldman, a 16-year-old volunteer at the Circle’s flagship West Bloomfield, Michigan chapter. “I just don’t know what I’d do without these beautiful young people. They bring tears to my eyes,” says Jamie Pollack, a mother of two children with special needs in Livingston, New Jersey. “As much as they’ve given my kids, I’ve been so inspired to watch how working with my kids has changed them.”
For more information, please visit ImprintTheWorld.com or email info@friendshipcircle.com.
Nathan Hindmarsh
I think this institution is a fnatstic and applaudable organisation that really deserves allot of credit for there tremendous efforts in inducing a sense of dignity,pride and selflesness, to be able to give from thereselves so much time and effort is somthing which is unfortunately of great need to allot of communities worldwide.
Again i would like to wish the friendship circle much success for the upcoming future.