A few months into COVID19, Josh Sud and Lexie Cooper reimagined their plans for their summer before starting law school in September. With their plans to go to Israel with Birthright derailed, they found themselves with unexpected time and energy on their hands and they got involved with UJA Genesis Community Accelerator Program. The program provides opportunities for community members to design their own volunteer-driven solutions to key community challenges.

Recognizing that COVID19 has impacted everyone, Josh and Lexie were eager to provide support to those who were particularly vulnerable.

“There are times that we’ve been bored and [because] we don’t have compromised immune systems, we can get together with our friends in the backyard and sit six feet apart,” they explained. “We can do that. When you have a compromised immune system, you can’t even do that.”

And so they set out to do something for those who have to be extraordinarily careful and as such are extraordinarily isolated….and bored. In recognizing that much of the focus for support from the government has been financial for families who are struggling, they wanted to do something for the children.