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08 February 2017

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Youth members from Hampstead Garden Suburb shul worked with adults supported by Kisharon on Sunday to produce a Tu B’Shvat poster in a Kisharon disability awareness programme.

The teach-in about disability will be followed by cookery sessions at Leeside Crescent and Montpelier Rise later this month, when those in the supported living accommodation will work with young people to prepare food for homeless people.

The disability awareness training was one of two sessions run by Volunteer Coordinator Lara Domjan for youth from Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue. In the first session, 25 young people aged 11 watched a film about Kisharon and heard about life with a learning disability.

Another disability awareness course was run by Volunteer Coordinator Francine Haagman for post bar and batmitzvah boys and girls at The Village Shul in Hampstead. Highlight of the session was a talk from Debbie Rosten, who has Down’s Syndrome. She dismisssed many preconceptions and explained how best to support people with learning disabillities.

Afterwards an exercise in communicating without using language – as some individuals with learning disabillities do everyday – taught participants how frustrating it can be to make yourself understood.

Some attendees in the group will put lessons learnt into practice by volunteering in supported living, while others will collect for Kisharon this Purim.

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