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Lois Pope Donates 12th Ambulance To AFMDA

Lifesaving Fleet In Honor Of Milly And Patrick Park

When does 12 equal thousands? When Lois Pope, one of the Magen David Adom is an organization of trained volunteer home communities;
nation’s top humanitarians and philanthropists, makes yet another and professional medical responders mandated by the Israeli a program offering
donation to American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) government to provide the nation’s pre-hospital emergency researchers with
to purchase a 12th mobile intensive care unit (MICU), enabling medical care, including disaster, ambulance and blood services. the means to pursue
Magen David Adom in Israel to save thousands more lives. The MDA National Blood Services Center provides 100 percent cutting-edge work
“We call these ambulances ‘the Lois Pope lifesaving fleet’,” of the blood needs of the Israel Defense Forces and 95 percent of in finding cures for
said Tamura Karu, Palm Beach County director for AFMDA. the blood needs of Israel’s hospitals. American Friends of Magen terrible diseases; a
“Through her generosity to Magen David Adom, Mrs. Pope David Adom funded the construction of the MDA National clean water system
continues to have a meaningful and direct impact on emergency Blood Services Center, continue to build or renovate many of in a Guatemalan
first response care in Israel. The Israeli people are eternally MDA’s emergency medical stations throughout Israel, and supply village; an effort
grateful for her commitment.” MDA with a wide range of emergency medical supplies and to aid refugee
As with her past MICU donations, Pope’s latest gift is in equipment, including most of the organization’s 800 ambulances women in Sudan;
honor of someone else, in this case it is dedicated to dear friends and Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICUs). These ambulances an initiative that has
Patrick and Milly Park. The Parks hosted the AFMDA major are on call 24/7, logging nearly 10 million miles and caring for resulted in nearly a
donor dinner at the exclusive 1000 NORTH on Feb. 11. More nearly 570,000 patients annually. For more information, visit dozen ambulances in Patrick Park, Lois Pope, and Milly Park
than 160 guests attended the dedication and exquisite dinner. www.afmda.org. Israel; and numerous
“I want to thank Milly and Patrick Park, Tammy Karu and all About Lois Pope, The Lois Pope LIFE Foundation Inc., And partnerships with Photo by Capehart
my American friends of Magen David Adom for this wonderful LIFE (Leaders In Furthering Education) American Humane
evening,” said Pope. “The reason I donated these ambulances As one of America’s leading philanthropists, Lois Pope has to expand rescue operations for dogs (cats and other animals)
and support Magen David Adom is because it connects me with positively impacted the lives of individuals at the local, national victimized by natural disasters and horrific abuse, as well as
two things I so passionately believe in: the state of Israel and its and international levels. She has established three different those who have fought alongside human soldiers on the front
people and ensuring that those in need of medical assistance can organizations dedicated to helping those in need – those who are lines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently, she made a $12
get it quickly. After all, my foundation is called LIFE and what disadvantaged, marginalized, or forgotten because of disabilities, million gift to establish the Lois Pope Center for Retinal and
better way to show my commitment to it than to bond with a socioeconomic status, neglect, age, abuse, and other barriers. Macular Degeneration Research at the Bascom Palmer Eye
people whose toast is L’Chaim, to life?” They are the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation, Leaders in Furthering Institute’s Palm Beach Gardens campus, the largest donation
According to Karu, the ambulances donated by Pope over Education (LIFE), and the Disabled Veterans LIFE Memorial ever to the institute. She has also produced two documentaries
the years have played a vital role in Israel, providing aid and Foundation. Over the past quarter-century, she has been the with award-winning director Ric Burns highlighting the plights
emergency transportation to everyone from victims of rocket and driving force behind the Lois Pope LIFE Center at the University of disabled veterans in the United States: Debt of Honor and
terrorist attacks to victims of heart attacks and auto accidents. of Miami School of Medicine; a summer camp program serving VA: The Human Cost of War.
They’ve also served as the birthplace for some of the more thousands of disadvantaged children in Florida; a scholarship To learn more visit www.life-edu.org.
than 100 babies that are born annually in Magen David Adom program for low-income students of enormous potential who
ambulances in route to the hospital. desired to attend medical school and then go back to serve in their Good Works on page 8

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