ASYV in the News: Tina and Tanya Get Some Love
Another week, another round of press for ASYV. This week it’s Tina and Tanya in the limlight.
From the the New Jersey Jewish News, Tina pitches for the village:
“A youth village is not an orphanage,” [Tina] Wyatt insisted. “The idea behind it is to recreate the rhythms of these young people’s lives.
“You and I get up every day and have breakfast and go to work. These kids don’t have that. It has been taken away from them forever. But we teach the kids that what happened to them in the past does not have to be their legacy.”
And in the Missourian, Tanya is all the rage:
About a month ago, Tanya Fredman was sipping coffee and animatedly discussing art at a Clayton coffeehouse near the home of her parents and younger brothers in University City.
Now she is more than 8,000 miles away on a jungle hilltop in the African country of Rwanda, helping Tutsi and Hutu orphans at Agahozo Shalom Youth Village.
So I’m here 4 months and nobody seems to notice. Tanya is here two weeks and she makes the news (the reall news even, not some local Jewish paper). It’s true, I must doing somehting wrong.
Doesn’t anyone want to write a story on me?