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week to play with him and his brother.
"It makes me feel good to know that
I'm really helping out the parents when
I see what kind of hard time they have
with their kids," he said.
Now they are paired at camp.
Sponsored by Birmingham-based
World Wide Financial, the winter camp
-is one of several programs operating
through the Daniel Sobel Friendship
Circle, an organization founded in
1995 by Rabbi Levi Shemtov and his
wife, Bassie, through the Lubavitch
Foundation Project.
About 230 volunteers are sent year-
round to provide respite care for fami-
lies of special needs kids. The volunteers
generally help out once a week for an
hour and a half .
The camp idea was launched dur-
ing a focus group session, when the
families said that some kind of addi-
tional activity during the holidays
would be a great help.
That's when Rabbi Rosenberg went
to work.
To some, the camp was a first expe-
rience as a volunteer; to others, it was
old hat.
Ari Teger, a 14-year-old Akiva
Hebrew Day School student, helped
autistic Marlies Budesky, 7, through-
out the camp. At her side in the horse
barn one day, he held on to her as
they flew down the Fridge toboggan
run another day. Although they had
never met before, and it was Ari's first
time volunteering, he said he felt a
bond with Marlies.
"I kinda wanted a vacation, but I've
done more [at camp] than I would have
anyway. I grew fond of her," he said.
"The first day, she wasn't listening to
me very much, but now I guess she's
attached to me, too."
Andrea Budesky said her daughter
gained much from the camp. "She really
enjoyed going," she said. "She doesn't talk
much, but every day, she knew where she
was going and she was excited."
Andrea Sriro, Noah's mother, said he
loved the camp and wants to go bowl-
ing, swimming, sledding and horseback
riding all the time now "Every morn-
ing, he wants to know if he's going. He
had a great time," she said.
As Michael Goldberg, 13, from
Derby Middle School in Birmingham,
shadowed Danny Jonas like a doting
parent after lunch, Bassie Shemtov
watched them both.
"Danny is one of our hardest kids,"
she said, "and I originally set him up
with an 18-year-old, but Michael
came up to me and said he knew him
from school."
Michael said he had volunteered