By Malky Allouch – Linkks
We have completely underestimated mentorship.
Too blunt? Maybe, but that’s the truth. The Rebbe was an ardent advocate for acquiring a mentor. The only requirements: someone who is NOT you and someone a little wiser and more G-dly than yourself. More specifically a person with modesty, compassion, and kindness.
My cousin Sara Chanowitz OB”M, passed away last year at the young age of twenty. We recognized the need for young Lubavitch girls to have mentors and mentor others, so we created a mentoring initiative called Linkks in her memory. In today’s time, there is great need for support, connection, and encouragement among teenagers. Most importantly, we need to be needed. We all seek to be valued and have purpose.
Our mission is to provide teens with a support system to choose their direction in their lives and become agents of kindness and goodness in their own community. To propagate this idea, Linkks is now pilot-launching monthly groups in which an experienced mentor addresses a group of girls about present-day relevant topics. The program has limited slots available per session so that it will be more intimate and impactful.
Our upcoming mentorship session will be featuring Eda Schottenstein. Eda Schottenstein is the founder of Multi-role Woman, an organization dedicated to helping women create healthy, happy, and balanced lives while juggling multiple roles. She is also a podcaster, educator, songwriter, mental health advocate, ADHD coach, mother, and wife.
The meeting is for girls to learn tips and tricks about surviving teenage life. Eda will be sharing tools and insights on how to meet life’s trials head on. It will IY”H take place on Tuesday, Dec. 22nd, 7 Teves at 5-6 PM EST.
Limited spots available, click the link to sign up now:
https://bit.ly/3gLvG9r
Get connected:
Instagram: @linkks_leaders | Website: Linkksleadership.com | Email: [email protected]
The world needs more empowerment and mentorship for everyone
Very much needed!!
Eda Im so impressed!!
Hatzlacha Rabba!!
A friend from MTL
As a teacher in a Lubavitch girls’ high school I salute this beautiful initiative which will surely meet with much hatzlocha. May the program organizers, speakers and all who are involved be benched with Mazal and Bracha for their efforts in what was surely the Rebbe’s dearest cause- Chinuch.
I have warm memories of eating at Eda’s Shabbos table as a camp counselor in Columbus over a decade ago. She is a sincere and generous soul- a true pnimi.