My name is Edward (Chaim) Stern and I am a united Hatzalah volunteer Medic #8879. I am 23 yrs old married and learning in the mir. It has always been my dream since i was a young boy to become a volunteer emergency responder and help people at their time of need.
I joined United Hatzalah 15 months ago after having undergone intensive training at MDA. Since then I have merited to a help hundreds of people from non serious "frequant flyers" who just need a helping hand or a listening ear to life threatening and often traumatic situations. Some end well others don't and unfortunately I have become a temporary grief counseler more than once.
Up until now I have responded on my personal motorcycle. Although I still beat the traffic it does have some drawbacks. I have to observe traffic laws like everyone else and also recently it has been taking one trip to many to the mechanic. Therefore I have embarked on a mission to raise funds for an emergency response ambucycle.
As I have witnessed in the last year and a half as an emergency responder, traffic can be a nightmare in urban areas and with our ambucycles we have cut down response times by as much as 15 minutes without compromising the quality of primary response care.
I am creating a campaign whereby 200 extraordinary people from our Northwest London community will donate $180 each, bringing me to the total of $36000. With these donations we will merit to have another lifesaving vehicle on Israel's streets delivering quality emergency response to our brothers and sisters at their time of need.
United Hatzalah is an independent, non-profit, fully volunteer Emergency Medical
Services organization that provides the fastest and free emergency medical first
response throughout Israel. United Hatzalah's service is available to all people without
regard to race, religion or national origin.