NEWS
In Bnei Brak: A Kindergarten for the Visually Impaired
by Yisrael Rosner
Special good news for Bnei Brak residents: for the first time, a chareidi kindergarten is being planned for the city's visually impaired which will be a fully educational project.
Several parents had appealed to the city's deputy mayor and head of the department for social services, Rabbi Gedaliah Silman, requesting that the city establish an educational framework for children grappling with challenged vision. This came as a result of a great need for such children who had to seek the services of various neighboring cities in environments not suited for chareidi children.
Deputy Mayor Rabbi Silman has been working on this for the past several months, together with a team from his office and the relevant bodies, and the broad help of the mayor, himself, Rabbi Chanoch Zeibart and head of Degel HaTorah, Rabbi Menachem Shapira. Finally, after much toil and effort, a suitable place was located, meeting all of the necessary special requirements, and a kindergarten has been duly inaugurated, to the deep satisfaction of the parents and all the other bodies involved.
It will be operated by the Ohr Einai organization, which has been actively involved for the past dozens of years in providing a wide and varied spectrum of state of the art programs for the visually impaired including tailored optical means including individual tutoring to enable each student to achieve his maximum potential.
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