Harvard University

"Sarah, we need your help in Ukraine this summer. Can I count on you?" At the end of my junior year, my rabbi asked me to volunteer as a counselor at JOLT, the Jewish Overseas Leadership Program. This outreach program was a rare opportunity to interact with young campers in an impoverished country and positively influence their lives. Little did I realize that this experience would profoundly change my life as well. JOLT runs an annual, eight-week summer camp in Ukraine led by 20 high-school-aged counselors from the United States and Israel. These counselors are carefully selected to be…