They’re called ‘drivers’ but they do so much more than drive. The Ezer Mizion Transportation Division drivers – a group of angels who continually show us what a human being is made of. Many of these are trained EMT’s and have been instrumental in saving lives. But even those without medical training have a top degree in midos training. Take Avi for instance. A fourteen-year-old boy with Muscular Dystrophy is scheduled to go to Schneiders Hospital for treatment. Avi’s assignment: to drive him from his home to Schneiders. But Avi is an Ezer Mizion driver. Avi, a trained EMT, brings him into the ambulance with the utmost care and attention to the human dignity of the boy. As he settles the young man, he makes small talk, asking him how things are going. A connection is formed and the boy shares recent incidents in his week with Avi as he would with any friend. Because that is what Avi has become – a good friend. The client told Avi how difficult the week had been. His electric wheelchair has become his legs. Without it, he can go nowhere. And recently the wheelchair broke down. A teenager who has endured so much in his young life and now had to be confined to the house. Avi commiserated with him and truly shared his hopelessness. But Avi didn’t stop there. The repair was expensive and the boy’s family did not have the funds. To Avi, his next step was obvious. He approached others with the boy’s dilemma and soon had the necessary funds in his pocket.
One cannot imagine the joy of the boy when, once again, he was ‘mobile’! But it doesn’t compare to Avi’s joy in bringing happiness to the distraught teen.
It’s 3:00 AM. It’s dark outside, a bit eerie. There’s a war going on. The whole country is asleep in their beds. The whole country except for Shuki. Shuki is an Ezer Mizion driver and he has received an assignment. A young boy has been suffering from cancer. The pain, the fear, the loneliness. The doctors had recommended a specific treatment available only overseas and now he was returning home. A difficult situation at any time but during the war, it was unbearable. Return to Israel had to be through the Egyptian Corridor. He needed so much more than a ride. And so Shuki awoke at 3:00 AM to drive him from Eilat to Jerusalem. With sensitivity and responsibility, the atmosphere was permeated with just what the boy needed after his ordeal. An Ezer Mizion driver at his best.
