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Marni narrates how she and her three sisters combined their love of movies (and excess of old videos in their home) with the mitzvah of Bikur Cholim in creating an amazing on going project.
By whoever is keeping score, I lead a pretty terrific life. I have a wonderful family and great friends. I have been given a fantastic education at an excellent school and I am involved in many different activities that I love there. I have traveled extensively with my family (and a few times on my own). I have been given so many opportunities, and yet ever since I was a little girl, I have known that my good fortune stands in stark contrast to many people in the world.
The flashes of tropical crimsons as the elderly van pulled up into a rural tattered village I was asked to call home are always present in my humble mind. I remember the half naked children covered only in shredded rags running around in the excitement of the whitewashed automobile, of what it carried, of what it represented. I was scared. Being thrown into an unknown world of infinite unknowns was not what I called and wanted to call home.