HARTFORD – The Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford is offering bar/bat mitzvah students in Greater Hartford a chance to change the world. Any young person who spends six hours working for Charter Oak will be inducted into the Anne Frank Society. Recipients receive a certificate and special candle that can be used at the student’s bar/bat mitzvah reception. Working with Charter Oak, the young people can choose from a variety of social service activities: working as a practice buddy for a student in its youth orchestra, collecting gently used musical instruments in good working order, raising money for the Beat of the Street newspaper for the homeless community, reading to children in its monthly Read It & Sleep program, raising money to support the BOTS Pots gardening program that provides vegetables to those in need or becoming a server at its monthly dinner for children and families.

For more information on this opportunity to join the Anne Frank Society, call (860) 310-2580 or email Tianna.Glass@CharterOakCenter.org.