2023-2024 Program
Thank you to our new and returning students, families, supporters, and the community for all of their hard work and support! With their help, BFB was able to serve over
200 youth and their families during the 2023-2024 school year.
#OneWorld Choir & the #OneWorld Community Concert & Exhibit
2023-2024 marked the second year of the #OneWorld Choir Program and the #OneWorld Community Concert & Exhibit. The #OneWorld Choir learned new songs and continued building relationships in a safe and open space. On
Saturday, April 27th 2024, BFB hosted our Second Annual
#OneWorld Community Concert & Exhibit.
Five choirs from the Rwandan, South Sudanese, Ukrainian, and AAPI communities put on spectacular performances and community members were able to discover all of BFB's programs in once place!
#OneWorld Soccer & #OneWorld Soccer Tournament of WNY
Following the success and positive impact of the #OneWorld Choir Program, BFB launched the #OneWorld Soccer Program in partnership with the Buffalo Maendeleo Soccer Club. In this program, BFB works to unite the immigrant and refugee communities through the universal sport of soccer while providing mental health support to youth participants and their families. On Saturday, July 13th 2024, BFB and Maendeleo hosted the first #OneWorld Soccer Tournament of WNY. Immigrant/refugee and local teams joined together for some friendly competition to unite our communities and break down barriers.
#StopHunger
#StopHunger is a BFB Youth Empowerment Program that started during the 2023-2024 school year with the "All Children Deserve Healthy Food" Campaign. This project worked to combat childhood malnutrition in the WNY communities, shared healthy meal ideas and recipes, and successfully delivered food donations to pantries throughout WNY.
Heal Yourself, Heal the World
In this healing retreat, we explored the science and tools of consciousness-based healing modalities in the pristine setting of Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve. Workshop facilitator and participants spent six and a half hours together, exploring the human biofield and its connection to epigenetics and neuroplasticity, the science of visualization and heart-brain coherence, the ancient technique of breathwork in unblocking energy and emotion, and the power of intention in collective healing. Participants engaged in first-hand experiences of guided relaxation, creative visualization, heart-brain coherence technique, somatic breathwork, intention healing experiment, and if we didn’t run out of time, a walking meditation and outdoor activities in nature. This workshop was not just a healing retreat but more importantly a community-building event focused on moving beyond self-care to other-care, and remembering the true essence of who we are as creators and healers of our own lives. When we heal ourself, we heal the planet.
Meditation & Healing Workshops
Become the Change you Want to See
In these five-week meditation workshops, we wove together paradigm-shifting discoveries of quantum physics, epigenetics, and neuroplasticity to understand the ancient art of meditation and how it can help us navigate the stressful modern life with equanimity. We explored modern sciences to ground our meditation practice, learning to regulate emotional states by acquiring the skill of changing brain waves, learning to expand our consciousness through purifying our subtle body, and finetuning our electromagnetic frequencies for health and wellbeing. We used heart-based meditation as a tool to overcome limiting beliefs and tendencies and becoming a better version of ourselves.
