Photo caption: Students Chen Biton, Efrat Shrier, Josh Weinstein, Avinoam Lichter, Sapir Loebstein, and Diana Kalamenso (Courtesy)
Students from the Department of Emergency Medicine at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, future paramedics, have been volunteering at the Beer-Sheva Magen David Adom station since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge.
Dr. Oren Wacht, who organized the volunteers, has in the meantime been called up for reserve duty.
This is just one of the ways that students and faculty have volunteered since the beginning of the operation. About 300 have volunteered through the "volunteering university" Project run by the Student Union Community Involvement Unit, The PREPARED Center for Emergency Response Research of BGU and the Beer-Sheva Municipality.
The volunteers have been placed in various community oriented tasks – among them, manning call-in centers for people under stress, daycare for essential employees, home visits to the disabled, answering phones at call centers and more.
