Bar mitzvah inspires a gift of school supplies to Haitian orphanage
from the Toronto Star:
A Toronto teen plans to spend the first few days of the New Year with his father in Haiti, distributing school supplies to students at an orphanage southeast of Port-au-Prince, which was just 12 kilometres from the epicentre of the 2010 earthquake.
The trip will culminate his efforts to do something meaningful in honour of his bar mitzvah.
Josh Arbess, a 13-year-old at Leo Baeck Day School, raised almost $25,000 by asking everyone who attended his bar mitzvah earlier this year to make a donation to Veahavta the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian and Relief Project.
The idea was to use a portion of the money to buy 1,000 Kinder Kits backpacks with school supplies to be shipped and distributed at the House of Hope orphanage at the beginning of Janaury. .............(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1305775--bar-mitzvah-inspires-a-gift-of-school-supplies-to-haitian-orphanage