{"id":590,"date":"2017-10-11T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/volunteer\/?p=590"},"modified":"2018-02-21T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:07:35","slug":"how-a-trip-to-south-carolina-gave-gardens-teens-a-lesson-in-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/volunteer\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/how-a-trip-to-south-carolina-gave-gardens-teens-a-lesson-in-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"How a trip to South Carolina gave Gardens teens a lesson in gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Sarah Peters<\/a>\u00a0– Palm Beach Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Posted: 1:54 p.m. Thursday, June 09, 2016<\/p>\n

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PALM BEACH GARDENS \u2014\u00a0<\/span>Instead of sleeping in, sunning themselves on the sand or studying for college entrance exams, Gardens students\u2019\u00a0lives are being changed<\/a>\u00a0by a five-day trip 500 miles north.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re talking about racial tensions in Charleston, S.C., a year after a\u00a0white gunman killed nine people at a historic black church<\/a>\u00a0during a Bible study, and donning hazmat suits to scrape mold from a house\u00a0flooded by rain from Hurricane Joaquin<\/a>\u00a0in October.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of\u00a0Project Tikvah<\/a>, coordinated by the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County\u2019s Jewish Teen Initiative. Tikvah is a Hebrew word that translates to \u201chope.\u201d Seventeen Palm Beach County teens went on the trip from Sunday to Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ruby Rosenthal, 16 of Palm Beach Gardens, was part of a team that helped bring hope to Patricia, a kind woman in her 50s displaced from a home that\u2019s been in her family for generations.<\/p>\n

Meeting Patricia made Rosenthal that much more motivated to scrape away at the mold. She had to put on a suit, mask and goggles before going inside the house ravaged by flood waters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in Florida, where this could happen any day, but we are so privileged that we haven\u2019t been destroyed by a flood as great as this one,\u201d Rosenthal said. \u201cI really don\u2019t know what would happen if we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannah Welton, 16, was standing beneath where the floorboards should have been when she looked up at a light switch and realized she was working in a child\u2019s room.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I could think of is if we weren\u2019t there to help them, there was a child who lived in this room, and they wouldn\u2019t have this room to come back to,\u201d Welton said.<\/p>\n

Project Tikvah is centered on social action. Hopefully, the newly inspired teens will continue their efforts back home in Palm Beach County.<\/p>\n

Consider: One in six residents don\u2019t know where they\u2019ll get their next meal and more than 60 percent of children in the school district qualify for free or reduced lunch.<\/p>\n

Helping at a food bank in South Carolina was the most eye-opening part of the trip for Jack Gabbe, 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learned we can\u2019t take things for granted. We need to be thankful for what we have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Sarah Peters\u00a0– Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Posted: 1:54 p.m. Thursday, June 09, 2016 PALM BEACH GARDENS \u2014\u00a0Instead of sleeping in, sunning themselves on the sand or studying for college entrance exams, Gardens students\u2019\u00a0lives are being changed\u00a0by a five-day trip 500 miles north. They\u2019re talking about racial tensions in Charleston, S.C., a year after a\u00a0white
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