{"id":5438,"date":"2020-05-19T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:02:32","slug":"saying-farewell-to-corona-lets-hope-its-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/saying-farewell-to-corona-lets-hope-its-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Farewell to Corona \u2013 Let\u2019s Hope it\u2019s Final!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tens of thousands of missions were shared with Israel\u2019s Home Front Command! And Israel\u2019s seniors, seriously ill, and people in quarantine \u00adwere the first to benefit from it. Each mission accompanied with so much love!<\/p>\n

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Recently, to the sound of ongoing applause, the Home Front Command awarded Ezer Mizion\u00a0 a Certificate of Appreciation for dedicated partnership throughout the recent bat\"pr<\/a>tle. A big \u201chats off\u201d to Ezer Mizion\u2019s team: our friends and supporters, staff and volunteers!Even as the \u2018goodbye\u2019s to corona\u2019 have begun, the needs have not yet ended. Says Moshe Beeri, director of Ezer Mizion\u2019s Northern Region: \u201cVia 350 What\u2019s App groups, we help thousands of people and families. We are in contact with the municipalities and the social services entities, and we deal with 2,000 calls and requests a day from across the country. Thanks to our volunteers, very many people feel that they have help and support during this period of hardship and that they are not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

A volunteer has enlisted her five children to do supermarket shopping for an elderly couple who cannot leave their home. She and other volunteers cook and distribute meals for those who are unable to manage on their own.<\/p>\n

Decorative fruit platters were just one of the ways to cheer up a hospitalized cancer patient who had recently undergone a transplant.<\/p>\n

\"pr<\/a>And what does a bus driver on furlough do nowadays?<\/p>\n

He energetically plans a trip (not easy with corona regulations) for Ezer Mizion\u2019s special needs children in Ashdod, finds a partner who donates the cost of a bus and gasoline, and together they serve as guides for the children and their accompanying staff for two days of a refreshing experience! The highlight was a visit to the petting zoo in Kefar Hanagid, where a blissful 17-year-old boy said: \u201cFor a whole month, I\u2019ve been shut up in the house. You made me so happy!\u201d Here are David and Nissim, the bus drivers with the golden hearts! David, the driver, mentors one of our special kids all year round, through Ezer Mizion\u2019s Social Services Mentoring Department for Family Empowerment.<\/p>\n

\"pr<\/a>About 6 weeks ago, a couple left Corona-battered Italy and arrived with their four children to an empty rental apartment in Beit Shemesh. During their compulsory two-week isolation, during which they slept on thin mattresses and used coats as pillows, a friend from abroad gave them the phone number of Ezer Mizion\u2019s Linked to Life, a WhatsApp network group for delivering items to people in need.<\/p>\n

A message to the group: \u201cFriends, we have a family here with four kids that just arrived from Milan and, due to the situation, they left Italy without any of their possessions. They have nothing \u2014 literally!!! Let\u2019s try to help them!\u201d<\/p>\n

The message spread within minutes. The results: Religious, Chareidi, and secular alike all rallied to help. \u201cEvery ten minutes, someone drops a package at our door. Games, linens, food\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Another neighbor opened a special headquarters, and before long, Ezer Mizion volunteers rallied to donate beds, electrical appliances, furniture, blankets, and linens to the family.. \u201cWe asked them what they needed, and all they requested was yogurt. In Italy, the yogurt isn\u2019t kosher and the kids really wanted to taste one. They got their yogurt and so much more \u201d<\/p>\n

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