{"id":2422,"date":"2012-05-04T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/africa-bound-students-learning-how-to\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:42:05","slug":"africa-bound-students-learning-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/africa-bound-students-learning-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa-bound students learning how to fight hunger, poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
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\nTwenty-six university and college students get together in Dollard des Ormeaux every Sunday night to study social action, community leadership and environmentalism.<\/div>\n
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\nIn August, they will apply those lessons during a ten-day trip to Africa.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cWe plan to visit several orphanages in South Africa serving child AIDS victims as well as a hospital for sick children,\u201d explained Dollard des Ormeaux Rabbi Mark Fishman, who initiated the project. \u201cWe will also get involved in hands-on work helping to construct part of a hospital, and visit Soweto to get an up-close understanding of what poverty and hunger is all about.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThe weekly educational seminars at Beth Tikvah Synagogue bring in humanitarian leaders from around the world who identify cutting-edge ideas,\u201d said Rabbi Fishman. \u201cFor example, Jeremy Hockenstein, who is recognized by the United Nations as one of the world\u2019s top-ten humanitarian leaders, visited Montreal to speak to us in April.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cHe explained to the students how he created an organization that empowers hundreds of Africans and South East Asians, identifying technology opportunities which have given them financial incentive and security.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThe students will each pay $2,500 for the South Africa trip,\u201d noted Rabbi Fishman, \u201cplus they are each responsible for raising a further $1,000 that will be used in Africa to purchase materials for the hospital, for example.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThat represents about half the cost of the trip and materiel. The other half will be covered by the Eddy and Heleena Wiltzer Leadership Centre and Beth Tikvah Synagogue, together with community donors such as Gen J, Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal, and Caisses Populaires Desjardins.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\nAlthough all current participants are Montreal Jewish students, \u201cwe are in the process of looking at how to bring in a broader societal base and conduct a combined trip together with non-Jewish students,\u201d added Rabbi Fishman. \u201cWhile we are not close to achieving this objective, it is being discussed at the moment.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThis is a new wave of programs for young adults. They learn the Jewish perspective on social action and caring for others and the ethics of responsibility, which they then put into practice.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\nThe student cohort, which includes several pre-law and pre-medicine students, are \u201cexemplary stars of the future,\u201d beamed Rabbi Fishman. \u201cMany want to serve with Doctors Without Borders or study experimental robotics, for example. Their desire to make the world a better place is just outstanding.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\nAfter their sojourn in South Africa\u2014which will be transmitted back to Canada live through blog updates by an experienced videographer\u2014they will travel to Israel for a ten-day trip that \u201cwill allow the students to see the country up close and personal.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\nRabbi Fishman explained that the second leg of the journey \u201cis one of two pillars of the Jewish community.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThe other is called March of the Living,\u201d he said, \u201ca heritage trip to Poland to explore World War II and the Holocaust.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cWe\u2019re hoping by conducting this pilot project to create a third pillar,\u201d the Dollard des Ormeaux cleric enthused. \u201cThe general and the particular Jewish message to the world is: How can we care for others as well as ourselves?\u201d<\/div>\n

Individuals who would like to contribute toward the Africa relief project can contact Rabbi Fishman at: www.bethtikvah.qc.ca<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nDollard des Ormeaux Rabbi Mark Fishman (left) will bring Montreal college students to Soweto in August, where they will witness poverty and hunger, and practice the caring and social concern that he has instilled in them.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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