{"id":1213,"date":"2021-06-12T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2021-06-12T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T22:03:31","slug":"american-friends-of-star-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/12\/american-friends-of-star-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STAR, INC."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;Building meaningful bonds between Ukraine and the USA&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What began as a casual conversation between a&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Peace Corps&nbsp;<\/strong>volunteer and a&nbsp;<strong>Chabad<\/strong>&nbsp;Rabbi &#8211; both of whom were living and working in Berdychiv, Ukraine &#8211; ended up as an organization that is now called the&nbsp;<em><strong>Star Foundation.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/imagens\/american_friends_of_star.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"153\"><\/td><td>Local partners and sponsors of the&nbsp;<em>Star Foundation<\/em>&nbsp;gather for the openig of the&nbsp;<em>Star Center<\/em>.&nbsp;<br><br>From left to right: Mayor of Berdychiv, Vasyl Mazur, Rabbi Akiva Nemoy, Peace Corps volunteer Chris Wilz and Peace Corps staff member Anne Silver.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This Peace Corps volunteer (Chris Wilz) and Rabbi (Moshe Thaller) saw a community they lived in with so much potential, intelligence and room for growth, but few positive outlets for that energy&#8230;especially for the youth and young adults&#8230;they knew&nbsp;something had to be done.&nbsp; The idea they had for a community educational center, and the outreach programs that&nbsp;such a center&nbsp;could sponsor, quickly evolved into reality, with a combination of hard work, the sponsorship of the U.S. Peace Corps and enthusiastic community support.<br><br>Now, the&nbsp;<em>Star Foundation&#8217;s&nbsp;<\/em>mission is to provide practical education, community building and support to the residents of Berdychiv, Ukraine and the surrounding area through its subsidiary organizations and programs.&nbsp; The&nbsp;<em><strong>American Friends of Star&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>is a forum for those of us abroad who wish to be involved with and to support the Star Foundation of Ukraine.&nbsp; You will find information about the Star Foundation and its various subsidiaries and programs on&nbsp;our&nbsp;<em><strong>Services<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;page, as well as information regarding how you can support the Star Foundation in a way that is&nbsp;most comfortable&nbsp;for you!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Building meaningful bonds between Ukraine and the USA&#8221; What began as a casual conversation between a&nbsp;U.S. Peace Corps&nbsp;volunteer and a&nbsp;Chabad&nbsp;Rabbi &#8211; both of whom were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}