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Yad Sarah gearing up to aid disabled tourists
heading for Israel next year.
NECHEMIAH MEYERS
Israel Correspondent
• A Christian pilgrim from Canada
some months ago turned to Yad Sarah
not once but twice. He initially need-
ed supplementary oxygen and came to
its Jerusalem office for a concentrator.
Then, on the way back to his hotel,
the taxi in which he was riding
became involved in an accident and
soon he returned to borrow a wheel-
chair
Yad Sarah spokesmen point out
Rehovot, Israel
mong the millions of tourists
expected to descend on Israel
in the next year will, of
course, be those in need of
wheelchairs. So a non-profit agency
named Yad Sarah is stocking up on
wheelchairs to aid the many handi-
capped men and women prepar-
ing for their turn-of-the millen-
nium journey to Israel.
The main task of Yad Sarah,
which has no less than 6,000
Yad Sarah runs a Day Rehabilitation
volunteers in its ranks, remains
Center in Jerusalem that helps handi-
what it has always been: provid-
capped people to alleviate their prob-
ing paramedical and rehabilita-
lems with the aid of among other
tive equipment and services to
things, pizza.
the citizens of Israel. But it also
The Center has a horticultural
aids visitors, and this aspect of its
program based on "wheelchair
therapy
activities will take on special
gardening,"
Within its framework,
importance in the year ahead.
► articipants grow herbs (oregano and
In fact, Yad Sarah begins its
asil) as well as cherry tomatoes.
work in this sphere before the
Then, in a special training kitchen, an
tourists land at Ben-Gurion
occupational therapist shows how to
Airport. It supplies information
use
special devices that enable them to
to questioners from abroad
cook
for themselves.
about the suitability of hotel
'
An
d what they usually prepare is
rooms, accessibility to places of
using the produce they previ-
interest, tour planning for travel-
y grew and picked.
ers with special needs and the
telephone numbers of relevant
Israeli bodies.
Now, for example, it is deal-
that it could do more for tourists
ing with requests for information from
were
it not for bureaucratic obstacles.
Adventure Planners Inc. in Winston-
For
example, it couldn't help a his-
Salem, N.C., the - Israel Government
tory
teacher
from Germany_with mus-
Tourist Offices in Zurich and
cular dystrophy who wanted to tour
Copenhagen, and Carlson Wagonlit
the country in a rented car and asked
Travel in Turlock, Calif.
the organization to arrange for permis-
When handicapped visitors actually
sion to park the vehicle near sites of
arrive, Yad Sarah does everything it
special interest.
possibly can to help them. Here are
This couldn't be obtained, officials
three recent cases:
informed
Yad Sarah, because the
• A woman from England, confined
"handicapped tags" that permit such
to a wheelchair because of multiple
parking are not issued to visitors. ❑
sclerosis, came to Israel to attend her
son's wedding. She was provided with
transportation to and from the air-
For more information on Yad
port, information about hotels with
Sarah, contact: in the U.S., Room
wheelchair-accessible rooms and baths,
1450 Parker Plaza, 400 Kelly
and lent a bed raiser, raised toilet seat
Street,
Fort Lee, N.J. 07024;
with handrails and a shower seat
(201) 9/14-2720; in Israel, Yad
• An elderly man from the U.S.
Sarah House, Kiryat Weinberg,
with emphysema, who was visiting
124 Herzl Blvd., Jerusalem, Israel
his daughter here, was lent a portable
96187; (02) 644-4444.
oxygen concentrator and back-up
cylinders
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