INTERESTED IN BECOMING
AN MDA
VOLUNTEER
IN ISRAEL?
Next Program Dates:
2010
Feb 15th - Mar 28th
Mar 15th - Apr 28th
May 3rd - Jun 15th
May 24th - Jul 31st
Jun 14th - Jul 27th
Jul 21st - Sep 2nd
Oct 4th - Nov 16th
Nov 8th - Dec 22nd
Dec 13th - Jan 2011
Dec 20th - Feb 2011
For more information
click HERE or
contact your local
STATE MDA OFFICE
for
AN EXPERIENCE
OF A LIFETIME!
young mda
If you care about saving lives in Israel ...
If you're aged between 18 and 30 ...
If you have skills you'd like to contribute ...
If you'd like to join our leadership group ...
YOUNG MDA WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!
If you can spare just a few hours each month,
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
to the lives of people in Israel!
To get involved, contact
Sharon Malecki
at the MDA Victoria office on 9272-5633
or email: ymdavic@gmail.com
Over 800 young people packed the Esplanade Hotel for Young MDA's highlight event
of the year. They raised over $10,000 towards the work of Magen David Adom in
Israel - and had a GREAT time doing it!
Click
HERE
to view all the pictures from PLASTERED 5!
SARAH UNGER
- AN MDA VOLUNTEER FROM MELBOURNE
TELLS THIS STORY ...
"Tuesday August 11th 2009: In the early hours of the morning, we received
an emergency call. We headed to a health clinic where a woman was having a
a heart attack (myocardial infarction ).
When we arrived, she was lying on a bed, complaining of severe
chest-pains and was hyperventilating.
Immediately, we gave her an oxygen mask, but she refused saying she that couldn’t
wear the mask. We then rushed her straight to the hospital where she was immediately
connected up to a defibrillator and shocked. Luckily, she survived."
MDA BEERSHEVA VOLUNTEERS
L-R: Adam Hyman (Sydney), Alon Mazor (San Fransico), Sarah Unger (Melbourne, Eden Abitbol (Montreal),
Josh Back (Melbourne); Front: Avigayil Talerman (Brooklyn), Ella Lobelson (Sydney)
"Tuesday August 18th 2009: my last shift with MDA in Be’er Sheva provided me with my greatest
experienced. We arrived at the Be’er Sheva public swimming pool at around 1:15pm and rushed through
the crowd to where a man lying beside an under-shelter pool. He was about 70 years old, unconscious,
not breathing, but with a pulse.
The lifeguard and two paramedics had been doing chest compressions for 2 minutes prior to us arriving,
but the man needed CPR. We immediately wiped down his chest, connected him to the defibrillator
and shocked him.
We then took over from the paramedics. We gave the man oxygen, helped set up an IV and cleared the
surroundings. Soon after, the man's chest started moving up and down. He was now breathing. There were
nine people, in total, helping this man to stay alive.
We rushed him to the hospital and immediately entered the emergency "shock room" where the doctors
were waiting for him. Within minutes of being connected him to an ECG, he was sitting up asking people
around him where he was. It was a truly amazing experience."
(LEFT) Chezi (driver), Ella Lobelson, Noam, Guy, Sarah Unger, Noy
(RIGHT) Sarah Unger, Ella Lobelson, Adam Hyman, Josh Back
"Tuesday August 18th 2009:
