Saving Millions By Creating A Flashmob Of Lifesavers
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how many
of you are parents well i’m a parent i
see a lot i’m a parent of five beautiful
children
so i would like to take you to a journey
as a parent so please close your eyes
just for a couple of moments
imagine to yourself you’re taking your
five-year-old son
for a journey in the city for a nice day
you buy him a candy
he give it to him he unwraps that candy
puts in his mouth
he’s having a huge smile on his face a
couple moments later he stops
you look at him and you see a sun
turning blue he puts his hand around his
neck
and he’s choking you’re screaming for
help people all around you are coming
everyone’s looking at you but no one
knows what to do
you’re begging people please call for an
ambulance
you pray to god please save my son and
that’s when he collapsed on the floor
every second seems like moments like
long moments
and you don’t know what to do and all of
a sudden on the corner of your eye
you see a man running towards you with
an orange vest
just as like one i’m wearing he’s
carrying a briefcase an orange briefcase
and when he gets to you he knees down to
your son and he starts taking care of
him
seconds passed by that seemed like
minutes and all of a sudden
you hear the sweetest voice you could
possibly hear
the voice of your son crying
you run over to your son you start
kissing and hugging him
this man meanwhile gets up takes his
medical supplies he puts it back in the
bag and he’s about to leave
and you sit you stop him and you say
excuse me
he looks at you and you say who are you
are you a doctor and he says no i’m a
shoemaker
i work in the store right around the
corner but i’m also a volunteer
paramedic
and i got an alert on my phone that some
kid is choking so i ran here by foot
and when i got here i saw your son and i
was able to save him thank god he’s okay
but i must go back to the store i have
customers waiting for me
to those of you who have their eyes who
are disciplined and have their eyes
closed you could open it now
well i want to ask you a question how
many of you
if you know that you have a
seven-year-old girl outside of where you
are now
choking would leave what you’re doing
now and run to save her
i see many many hands here and that’s
amazing to see how many people
really care and how much goodness there
is between the people here and the
people around the world
so how do you harness all this goodwill
and create a flash mob
of lifesavers that could save little
girl or little boy
in the moments that are so crucial for
them and save their lives
by having this flash mob how do you do
this
so let me tell you my story i grew up in
jerusalem israel
when i was a young 16 year old boy i
went to volunteer on an ambulance and
as you could see i had much more here
then
i loved it it was a year and a half that
i really enjoyed volunteering in the
back of the ambulance but i realized
after one and a half years volunteering
in an ambulance
that i helped many people but i never
actually got to save anyone
by the time we got there was so late so
some people who really needed our help
they weren’t breathing or had a real
serious heart attack
or even a car accident we got there a
few seconds or a few minutes too late
what changed my life was a story about a
seven-year-old boy
who his mother called for help when he
was eating lunch and he was choking and
it took us 21 minutes to arrive
when we came in we saw the mother on the
floor next to her son crying and begging
us to save his life i was only 16. i was
crying with her while i was doing cpr
a man runs into the house moments later
and he says i’m a doctor i live around
the corner i saw an
ambulance parked here i want to help you
and he was helping us for a while and
after a while he said
i am so sorry to say but this kid is not
alive anymore
just bring a sheet to cover him that
moment was the worst moment for my life
i realized that that doctor lived a
block away but he didn’t know about the
emergency till we arrived
and that’s when i said to myself
ambulance don’t save lives
people save lives communities save lives
how do we take these people
how do we take these people who are
willing to go save other people and
notify them
before an ambulance arrives to save
these people while the ambulance is
stuck in traffic
so i went over to the ambulance
organization where i volunteered and i
tried convincing them
to share the information with me as a
volunteer when i’m home
i’ll buy a pager just send me the
information when someone’s in trouble
so i could go save these kids or people
whatever it is
and guess what they said no they said
when someone needs help they must get an
ambulance
so i decided as a child i was 16 years
old
to use israel’s best innovation in
yiddish it’s called hutzpah
in english it’s called sas and here you
call it
jugar right
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and i decided i’m going to buy illegal
walkie-talkie scanners and i’ll tap into
their emergency calls and listen to the
to the ambulances when they send out the
ambulance and the address
and i will know way before them where
the address is and get there
if you remember batman that’s how he
listened to the police that he was able
to go to emergencies
that’s what i did but i did it for
ambulances
and that’s how i started that’s how i
started united hatsala
united you all know what it is uniting
people all around me and at seller means
rescue in hebrew
save well it’s taking people all around
me
training them and actually getting them
to get to the scene in the first 90
seconds
so how do you do that you need four
very important elements the first
element the first these are the people
and the first element you need is
training you need to take people and
train them to be
volunteers to actually know what to do
in every type of emergency
the second thing you need is medical
supplies just like this
a bag with all the medical supplies you
need to save someone the third thing is
you need
transportation volunteers could use
their own cars you know
you see uber uber drivers use their own
cars to transport people
hatsella united itself is a volunteer
corps we don’t charge money we don’t
we don’t transfer people but we could
use our own cars but you could also use
your bicycle
or you could even run by foot but if
you’re really really brave and i know a
lot of brave people here
you could actually use this incredible
thing called
an ambient cycle this i created in
israel
i realized ambulances get stuck cars get
stuck but these motorcycles never get
stuck
so i created this box it has all the
medical supplies here
even has the siren and everything and
you get there quicker than anything in a
mission of 90 seconds this is what helps
so the last thing that’s so important is
information
i used to use jugar to get to
emergencies listening into the
ambulances today we have technology
we get with our technology the most
incredible technology
the closest five volunteers to every
emergency get alerted basically
according to where they are so this
shoemaker
or you get alerted basically if
someone’s having a heart attack next to
you
you know you’re close you’re on there
you treat them and then you go back home
or go back to work that’s the most
important thing the information
so where are we now we are all over
israel i started with 15 volunteers we
have over 6 000 volunteers in israel now
jews jews if you realize i’m jewish but
i have muslim friends in israel who
volunteer with me i have
christians i have drews every type of
person who wants to be a volunteer
could volunteer men and women and every
religion
run together to save lives the closest
five people no matter who you are
and we get there in less than three
minutes for every emergency nationwide
and some cities
were under 90 seconds now
but we’re not only in israel we are now
traveling around the world when 21
countries we
we helped and established in many
countries and we just finished doing
this in jersey city this is a very
complicated city
a response time now in jersey city is
two minutes and 35 seconds for an
emergency
so now my goal is to go the rest of the
world and
india 1.2 billion people
i can’t even say that it’s so much think
about it how many people here
need you guys to help their save their
lives
so really our goal is to go everywhere
including here in india and i just see
the traffic outside and i imagine how
many people
suffocated for death by by the time the
ambulances get
and i promise you in india the ambulance
services will be very happy when you
come and offer help
well my goal is to take all of you and
join them
into my life-saving flash mob and save
millions and millions of people so i
would love
each one of you to take upon yourself to
volunteer
and to actually train to become an emt
or a first responder or paramedic then
buy a little bag with some medical
supplies that’s all you need
put in the back of your car or take it
on the bicycle whatever it is
and then go over to the ambulance
service
in your local places no matter where it
is in the world
convince them to share their emergency
calls with you
and then all of us together will save
millions of people
millions of people every day around the
world that otherwise will not survive
thanks to the life-saving flash mob of
united hatsella
thank you very much namaste
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