{"id":4422,"date":"2018-02-21T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:41:27","slug":"the-boeing-corporation-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/the-boeing-corporation-saves-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boeing Corporation Saves Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Ivry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can one even begin to imagine the helplessness of being in a plane thousands of feet in the air when the plane is no longer responding to the control mechanisms? You\u00a0 – a tiny speck in the vast sky –\u00a0 and the hitherto dependable controls now no more than bits of disconnected metal and plastic\u2026 alone\u2026 exposed\u2026powerless. David Ivry<\/strong>, former Israel Ambassador to the United States<\/strong>, the ninth commander of the Israel Air Force and the first director of the Israel\u2019s National Security Council was a man used to being in control. Yet, he tells of his experience in the scenario described above. \u201cIt seemed to be all over. Then I remembered I had one chance: the ejection seat. I used it and I was saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr. Ivry<\/strong> compares his terrifying experience with the situation of a patient diagnosed with cancer<\/strong>. All the usual forms of treatment have been tried and have failed. There is only one more chance. That is a bone marrow transplant.<\/strong> But it can only be performed if a DNA match<\/strong> can be found. It probably exists somewhere in the world but how does one go about searching among millions of Jews around the globe? And even if it can be done, will a match be found in time? Before the patient\u2019s condition deteriorates and it can no longer be effective? Before it\u2019s too late?<\/p>\n

The Boeing Corporation<\/strong> is committed to community responsibility and has invested in many worthwhile charities. Moneys are given each year and, by the end of the year, used up. That is the way of the world. Money is used and no longer exists. \u201cGiving to Ezer Mizion is different,\u201d says David.\u00a0 \u201cWhen our financial outlay funds a life-saving transplant<\/strong>, the money isn\u2019t used up. The investment continues to grow. A life is saved. A child will mature. He\u2019ll marry, produce children of his own. Generations. Eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Boeing Donor Pool has saved 8 lives including that of little Ivan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was under Mr. Ivry<\/strong>\u2019s leadership as President of Boeing-Israel<\/strong> and Vice-President of Boeing International<\/strong> that Boeing invested in a donor pool in Ezer Mizion\u2019s Bone Marrow Registry<\/strong>. What is a donor pool? For a sum of $30,000, a pool of 600 potential donors is genetically tested. The information remains on the database for decades and is available when a search request comes in for a desperate cancer patient whose last chance to survive is a transplant<\/strong>. When a transplant takes place using a donor whose testing was funded by the pool, the contact is notified with the electrifying words: You have saved a life! The Boeing Donor Pool has already saved eight lives. When the news arrives, an email is sent out and the Boeing<\/strong> office is buzzing with employees running to one another, \u201cDid you hear? Did you hear?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The donor’s genetic testing was funded by the Boeing Donor Pool and saved Ivan’s life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One such notification to Boeing told of a small boy \u2013 only three years old.\u00a0 A little boy who, like little boys around the world, has plans, perhaps of becoming a fireman or a policeman when he grows up. But this little boy was afflicted with a life threatening autoimmune disease and was being treated in Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.\u00a0 It never crossed his tiny mind that he may not grow up at all. But his parents knew.\u00a0 Each time he spoke of the future \u2013 when I\u2019m big can I cross the street by myself? – his parents smiled on the outside but cried rivers of tears inside.<\/p>\n

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David Ivry<\/strong>\u2019s face glows as he tells of this child. The Boeing<\/strong> Donor Pool funded the genetic testing for Oded Zand, a young man in Israel<\/strong>, and it was he that was found to be the perfect genetic match for little Ivan Woloktyok. Because of the generosity of the Boeing<\/strong> team, Ivan will cross the street by himself one day, he\u2019ll learn to ride a two-wheeler and he\u2019ll grow up and become an adult like all little boys should.<\/p>\n

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Ivan is five now. He\u2019s a healthy, mischievous ball of fire.\u00a0 He recently was the star of a meeting between his parents, Oded and 2 key Boeing staff members. While the adults embraced with tears of mutual gratitude, Ivan zoomed around the room, not understanding what all the excitement is about. He\u2019s secure, our little Ivan. Secure in the certainty of the future that awaits him. And that\u2019s exactly the way it should be.<\/p>\n

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Today, Ezer Mizion\u2019s Bone Marrow Registry numbers 889,956 potential donors, thanks to whom 2,711 lifesaving transplants have taken place to date. One of the Registry administrators’ most substantial challenges is raising funds to finance tissue typing of the collected samples, a procedure that demands major resources.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Bracha Zisser, Director of the Registry: “On the one hand, the Bone Marrow Registry<\/strong> enables everyone to be a partner in saving lives, and, on the other hand, it acts as insurance policy, increasing the chances for anyone we know to obtain a transplant, should the need arise. Mutual responsibility is the essence and guiding principle of Ezer Mizion. Thank you to the Boeing Corporation<\/strong>, to all the personalized donor pools at Ezer Mizion\u2019s registry and to all our individual contributors for their noble partnership in our efforts to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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