Shayna Solomon, Ezra Wexler, and Sarah Schwartz (2009-2010 Essay Contest participants)

Social Action For Everyone (SAFE)

Click here to read an article in Washington Jewish Week about one of SAFE's first activities

Click here to learn about SAFE's partnership with Bikes for the World

Click here to learn about SAFE's partnership with a Jewish-Muslim interfaith artist organization, JAMmARTt

Project Summary Continued:
While most teens know that these problems exist, only a small number probably do something to help the homeless.  Our goal is to bring Muslim, Christian, and Jewish teens together to collectively participate in practical projects such as making sandwiches to donate to a food bank.  Such projects teach compassion towards less fortunate people, and also aid those in need in the short term by providing them with food and other necessities.

At the same time, our project will also foster compassion between teens of different religions.  While they participate in compassionate projects, the teens will also discuss how each of their religions teaches them to perform such compassionate acts.  Since our project includes not only interfaith discussions but action as well, the teens will experience how each of the Abrahamic Faiths preaches aspects of compassion that lead to a common goal of helping those in need.  By experiencing this collective effort, teens participating in our project will hopefully learn the importance of being compassionate to people of all religions, because one's religious beliefs are no basis for hate.