Look, honestly, the only reason why I posted here in the first place is because I wanted to know about this program. I haven’t the foggiest idea beyond this post and what I’ve heard over time. That has been my request from the first post.
SO can someone tell me?
Project SEED (Summer Education ? ?) is a project run by Torah Umesorah. It consists of several types of programming, which share certain commonalities. You can see more by googling it and finding them on their websites.
A. The commonality is that it is always in the summer; sending yeshiva guys or “yeshiva” girls to underserved jewish communities. (Their policy is to not run both a girls and guys program in the same city).
B. Types of programming.
1. Day camps. Some of the programs are day camps, which the guys or girls run for the local kids. Most (all?) girls ones are this type, and some guys ones are this type. I personally did this type once.
2. Learning. Most of the guys programs are like this. It is usually run in affiliation with a shul, and the guys spend several hours a day learning in the shul and available to learn with the am haa- um- baal habatim. I have personally done 3 of these programs, and the hours we spent daily learning typically ranged in the 5 hours a day area.
Frequently, the guys will also say shiurim, and speak between mincha/maariv and the like.
Also frequently, there will be married couples who are part of this type of group, and the women half of the couples will say shiurim for women. I bet it has even happened that there were only couples, and singles.
There may be other things you do as well. There can be endless variation. BBQ’s are an essential part of this. So is beer.
It is really quite a win-win situation for the Jews and the yeshiva guys/girls.