Last week, Dalia Apfelbaum and Rivka Boniuk, two bat mitzvah girls and their families, both from Riverdale, NY, participated in a guided tour and volunteer experience at Yad Sarah. The tour at The Yad Sarah Experience visitor's center began with a short film, which told the amazing story of Yad Sarah – how it developed, only thirty years ago, from an old railway car with a few inhalers and humidifiers into the largest volunteer organization in Israel, with over 100 branches and 6,000 volunteers throughout the country. The tour also included a chance to view a few of the many varied departments as well as activities that take place daily at Yad Sarah, such as the lending department, where over 3,000 types of equipment are available to anybody who needs them, no questions asked. The last stop on the tour was the wheelchair maintenance department, where thousands of wheelchairs are cleaned and fixed by volunteers daily. Here the girls and their families helped clean wheelchairs, thus participating "hands on" in the volunteer experience of Yad Sarah.

#_lt#div style="text-align#_sc# left;" dir="ltr"#_gt##_lt#span style="font-size#_sc# medium;"#_gt# #_lt#p style="text-align#_sc# justify;"#_gt##_lt#strong#_gt##_lt#span style="color#_sc# #0000ff;"#_gt#Last week, Dalia Apfelbaum and Rivka Boniuk, two bat mitzvah girls and their families, both from Riverdale, NY,  participated in a guided tour and volunteer experience at Yad Sarah.#_lt#/span#_gt##_lt#/strong#_gt##_lt#/p#_gt# #_lt#p style="text-align#_sc# justify;"#_gt#The tour at The Yad Sarah Experience visitor's center began with a short film, which told the amazing story of Yad Sarah – how it developed, only thirty years ago, from an old railway car with a few inhalers and humidifiers into the largest volunteer organization in Israel, with over 100 branches and 6,000 volunteers throughout the country.#_lt#/p#_gt# #_lt#p style="text-align#_sc# justify;"#_gt#The tour also included a chance to view a few of the many varied departments as well as activities that take place daily at Yad Sarah, such as the lending department, where over 3,000 types of equipment  are available to anybody who needs them, no questions asked.#_lt#/p#_gt# #_lt#p style="text-align#_sc# justify;"#_gt#The last stop on the tour was the wheelchair maintenance department, where thousands of wheelchairs are cleaned and fixed by volunteers daily. Here the girls and their families helped clean wheelchairs, thus participating  "hands on" in the volunteer experience of Yad  Sarah.#_lt#/p#_gt# #_lt#p style="text-align#_sc# justify;"#_gt# #_lt#/p#_gt# #_lt#/span#_gt# #_lt#/div#_gt#