Special Needs = Special Love

A Special Workshop for Special People

We have a candidate for President who—shockingly!—has mocked those with special needs and others with disabilities. Normalizing that kind of cruel behavior is a slippery slope that connects back to how the Nazis treated people with special needs. They made them among the first victims of mass killings.

So it’s very appropriate that one of the very first workshops connected to the 6 Million Lights Campaign was a lamp-making, light-making workshop held in May, 2024, at Friendship Circle of Wisconsin, geared toward those with special needs. What a treat the workshop was!  

With almost two dozen participants, and a tight 90 minute time frame, the workshop was a bit frenetic at times.  But there was lots of light—both in the lamps the participants made and in the faces of all of the participants.  

Every participant came home with a beautiful light.  And each time they gaze at their beautiful, luminous creation we hope it’ll remind them of their own inner light and how they share it with the world.

We are hoping that we can expand this program so that more special needs individuals will have a chance to make light and share light. With our user-friendly lamp making process, lamp making is a wonderful craft that’s accessible to many special needs individuals.