How 2 Women Changed The World For Special Children & Their Families | Jenine Shwekey & Chaya Bender

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Jenine Shwekey and Chaya Bender are the founders and directors of The Special Children's Center.

The Center, as it is affectionately known, is full of laughter, learning, and love. Founded by Jeanine and Chaya in 1996, it has grown into a pillar of support and a lifeline for countless children and their families across the tri-state area.

The center provides around-the-clock respite services throughout the year. The center’s special education staff runs therapeutic programs, and hundreds of volunteers join forces to help others feel whole.

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0:00.0	A neighbor mine had Down syndrome twins.
0:02.3	I want to.
0:03.4	And I got very well.
0:05.1	We were involved with these one or two other kids.
0:07.6	And then there was another family like,
0:09.6	I'm like, hi, we need a place for these kids.
0:12.5	We can just like every day,
0:14.1	jump, go to this person's house,
0:15.6	and then they have to go to that person's house
0:17.1	and they turn 17 out of car.
0:18.9	I was doing one day here, one day there.
0:20.7	We would go to, like, this is my mom.
0:22.2	I'm like, look, what do they stand?
0:23.7	Is it falling apart?
0:25.6	We need to help them.
0:27.3	Hi, actually, yeah, but the issue was,
0:28.7	you know, I found an apartment.
0:30.2	We went to this rabbi.
0:32.4	We said, you know, we need help, we need money,
0:33.8	we need rent.
0:34.6	This is what we want to do.
0:35.4	He says, you know, I have the perfect person
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