Mentoring Youth Board Volunteers at Food Pantry

This week, the Mentoring Youth Board (which consists of fifth through eighth grade students who guide the Brandeis mentoring program) visited the Jewish Family and Children’s Services food pantry to lend a helping hand. “The Mentoring Youth Board is about not only teaching students to take on leadership roles here at school but also in teaching them how to lead and contribute to the wider community,” says Dean of Student Life Sharona Israeli-Roth. The goal of this opportunity was to provide our student-leaders with the opportunity to understand more about the food issues facing our San Francisco community so they can work together to brainstorm how our Brandeis community can contribute. “JFCS approached me about working with our students, and this was really the perfect blend of tikkun olam and kindness, two of our Brandeis community values,” Ms. Roth explains. Our student-leaders are now tackling the questions “How do you empower others to feel passionately about social action? And what does that look like across the grades?”

 

Says fifth grade student-leader Manu R., “This experience left me thinking that if just one person can make such a big difference, how big a difference a whole school can make.” MORE PHOTOS