The Charlotte Jewish News - October 2012 - Page 28
LJCC’S Butterfly Project Continues to
Soar
The Vial of Life Program
During the past year, the Levine
Jewish Community Center has
presented its Butterfly Projeet
Workshop to more than 1,500 stu
dents from the Charlotte area and
beyond. The two-hour workshop,
generally targeted to 5 th through
8th grade ehildren, but available to
adults as well, uses the story of the
Holoeaust as a vehiele to teaeh
what ean happen when prejudiee,
stereotyping, and diserimination
are allowed to flourish. A eritieal
aspeet of the lesson is to examine
what ean happen when individuals
and governments fail to respeet
and proteet all people. Partieipants
experienee a Holoeaust survivor’s
story, engage in a hands-on projeet
that remembers some of the 1.5
million ehildren who perished in
Butterflies painted by Camp Judaea campers.
the Holoeaust, ineluding the paint
ing of a eeramie butterfly, and
visit the Margaret and Lou
Sehwartz Butterfly Garden.
Edueational diseussion groups
foeus on inspiring partieipants to
build bridges of eommunieation,
understanding, and respeet for all
people.
The Levine Jewish Community
Center is fortunate to have two
Holoeaust survivors whose partie-
ipation in the workshops is the
highlight for many partieipants.
Suly Chenkin and Irving
Bienstoek have dedieated many
hours to the Butterfly Projeet
Workshops. Their stories assist in
aehieving the goal of the
Workshops: to teaeh eaeh partiei-
pant to remember the past, to aet
responsibly in the present and to
ereate a more peaeeful future.
This past summer, Suly attend
ed and spoke at two workshops
held at Camp Judaea, a Zionist
Jewish summer eamp loeated in
Hendersonville, in the
heart of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Those were
Suly’s first visits to a
Jewish summer eamp
ever. Suly’s story of
bravery was told to more
than 200 eampers attend
ing Camp Judaea, who
eame from plaees sueh
as Florida, Puerto Rieo,
North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, Alabama, and Israel.
The eampers painted eeramie but
terflies whieh were left at the
eamp for ereation of its own
Butterfly Projeet memorial. One
of the eampers who listened to
Suly Chenkin with an Israeli
Scout from Hadera.
Suly was a young Israeli Seout
from Hadera, Charlotte’s sister
eity in Israel. In addition, Suly
spoke to eampers from Camp
Coleman, a Reform Jewish sum
mer eamp in Cleveland, GA.
Camp Coleman is also ereating its
own seulpture at its faeilities.
Parents of middle-sehool ehil
dren, we’d love your help in get
ting your ehildren’s sehools
involved in our workshops. For
more information about the
Butterfly Projeet, to volunteer
your time, or to arrange a work
shop for your sehool, eompany,
organization or faith-based group,
please eontaet Dana Kapustin, at
The Butterfly Projeet at 704-366-
6833 or butterflyprojeet@eharlot-
tejee.org. ^
The Levine Jewish Community
Center (LJCC) is eommitted to
healthy living as part of its mis
sion statement. While health and
wellness are at the top of almost
everyone’s priority list, there are
times when medieal eare is neees-
sary. There are also times when
that medieal eare
requires emergeney •
intervention. When * ‘ '
you faee a medieal
emergeney you may
be seared, anxious, in
pain, eonfused, or
unable to speak for
yourself. It is during those times
that your Vial of Life will speak
for you and help save preeious
life-saving minutes during an
emergeney erisis by providing
emergeney responders with your
vital health-related information.
This information will enable
responders to make the appropri
ate emergeney deeisions in the
administration of emergeney eare
that will impaet your treatment
and ultimately, your survival.
The Vial of Life is a free eom-
munity-wide program being spon
sored by the LJCC and the Oasis
Senior Enriehment Program in
eonjunetion with the Ameriean
Senior Safety Ageney. Our Vial of
Life program is being funded
through a grant from the
Foundation for the Charlotte
Jewish Community through the
generosity of the Fay and Danny
Green Endowment for the Benefit
of the Charlotte Jewish
Community.
As a partieipant in this pro
gram, you will reeeive a medieal
form to fill out, a plastie bag in
whieh to plaee your medieal form,
a magnet with whieh to attaeh
your plastie bag to your refrigera
tor, and a deeal whieh will be
plaeed on your front
window or door for
easy visibility by all
emergeney responders.
Emergeney responders
Chit lain ^re familiar with the
program and will look
for your deeal as they
approaeh your home.
Proteet yourself and your entire
family by having a Vial of Life for
every family member, ineluding
ehildren. It eould save a life -
espeeially the life of someone
with a ehronie illness or eomplex
medieal eondition. Make extra
eopies of the eompleted form and
keep it in your purse, glove eom-
partment, wallet, briefease, baek-
paek, ete. Keep it updated and eur-
rent. If you live alone, you may
also want to eonsider obtaining a
medieal emergeney alert system
for your home. If you have a
potentially life-threatening eondi
tion, you should also eonsider
wearing medie-alert jewelry.
Piek up your free Vial of Life
kit at the Weinberg Center at the
LJCC.
For more information, eontaet
the nurse at the Weinberg Center
at 704-944-6880 or visit
www.eharlottejee.org. ^
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