A surprise in the united volunteer headquarters! After surveying hundreds of volunteer forms from all over the country Ichud Hatzolah were surprised to find that the average age of their volunteers is not as young as they had all thought… it’s approximately 43 years of age!
It also appears that many of the volunteers have grandchildren, and some even have great grandchildren! They were surprised because the nature of the job would seem to require youthful energy and stamina.
Volunteering requires running to emergency calls, performing CPR, which takes a lot of physical effort, with the demand of being on call round the clock .
It was quite astonishing that only 30% of all volunteers are under the age of thirty.
The greatest surprise of all was the age of the oldest volunteer who just turned 78 years old! Sara has children, grandchildren and even some great-grandchildren. Sara doesn’t miss a beat. She is living in Shalavim and responds to every call which comes in.
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may she have the koach to continue helping people ad meah viesrim shanim
Mi ke’amcho yisroel. A person that age with children and grandchildren still finds time to do chessed at its highest level. may she have the strength to continue till 120.
So many of the recent olim from Nefesh Bnefesh have filled the vacuum of volunteers for all organizations in Israel.
“78 years young” should be the headline