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Community service is a vital – and very popular – part of the Darkaynu programs for developmentally disabled young women and men. “Our women rotate their weekly volunteer efforts between packing food for the needy at Yad Eliezer, walking dogs for the homebound elderly (whom they visit as well), lending a hand in a nursing home, and taking a severely handicapped boy out to give his family a respite. The men volunteer twice monthly by cooking and serving in the Chazon Yeshaya Soup Kitchen,  sorting clothes at the Yad B’Yad chessed center in Efrat, and helping out at the Pina Chama in Gush Etzion, where they offer cake, coffee and company to the locally-stationed soldiers,” explains director Elana Goldscheider. “Our students are very dependable, hard-working volunteers. Best of all, these young people, who have so often been on the receiving end of chessed, are proud and  delighted to be taking care of others in need.”

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