Khmelnytsky Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht" is a social partnership organization of many educational and scientific institutions of the city of Khmelnytsky. The M. Ostrovsky Regional Scientific Library was perhaps the first to sign a Social Partnership Agreement with our Foundation on joint cooperation on the cultural integration of the values and knowledge of the Jewish community into modern Ukrainian society. As part of this cooperation, on November 13, a joint meeting of representatives of the Khmelnytsky Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht" with students of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management and the Khmelnytsky State Pedagogical Academy was held in the library reading room under the title "Tolerance: Joining Forces."
The program, developed by several Centers of the Khmelnytskyi and Ternopil regions, was presented to the students. The project “The Way Will Be Overcome” by the regional development manager Halyna Atamanchuk and the ensemble leader Anatoliy Muzyka has already managed to become popular with people both in Khmelnytskyi and Ternopil, as well as within the territorial scope of the Foundation’s work. But this was only the first part, which was called “The Life of Wonderful People”. The next step was the part “Fathers and Children”, which touches the finest strings of the soul of every person. It was this program that was presented to the young library students.
Representatives of the Foundation approached the task with a soul – to convey to young people the difficult issue of interaction between parents and children. A rather unusual form of information presentation was presented to the listeners. Instead of the usual lectures that one has to listen to every day at universities, the guests saw and heard songs with a guitar, dedicated to the relationships between children and adults. In her stories, Halyna Atamanchuk touched on various life situations, from the birth of a child to, no matter how sad it was – the departure of parents into eternity. And although the children-listeners at first did not understand the general idea of the gathering, during the meeting they all felt something of their own, close and thoughtful.
Several video clips dedicated to mothers, fathers and the relationship between children and their parents were also shown to the guests. The audience was left full of emotions, and the organizers from the library and the speakers from the Hesed Besht Children's Charity Foundation were satisfied with the work done. After all, tolerance, which was the leitmotif of the event, was fully embodied in the two-way dialogue between representatives of the Jewish community and students.
