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Homebound Outreach:
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ncontrolled diabetes had taken its toll on Gideon, a 46 year old
husband and father in Rehovot. With the amputation of both legs,
he is no longer able to work at his maintenance job. He is homebound,
spending his days in his pajamas, lonely, depressed and ashamed.
Gideon’s family member went to the local branch to borrow
equipment and was referred to Anat Ben Zaken, director of Yad Sarah’s
Home and Community Services. Anat helped Gideon obtain the home
care equipment needed and arranged for accessible transportation.
His family – a wife and four children – were referred to Yad Sarah’s
Caregiver Support Program. Anat assigned a volunteer to visit the
home and the Yad Sarah mission is realized: bringing help and hope
to the people of Israel through a unique network of health and home
care support services. “We look after the ‘welfare’ of the people,”
explained Ms. Ben Zaken, helping to empower people and provide
emotional support to them and their families through one of life’s most
challenging tests – a serious illness.
Anat Ben Zaken, Yad Sarah’s Director of Home and
Community Services (center) with Rishon volunteers.
Spring 2015
Inside
this Issue
Homebound Outreach:
Changing Lives One at a Time .................................. 1
Report from the Executive Director............................ 2
First Person Account................................................... 3
Leaving the Hospital Behind....................................... 4
Did You Know?............................................................ 5
Yad Sarah Vital Statistics 2014.................................... 6
All About Yad Sarah.................................................... 6
Vans That Never Tire................................................... 7
Leave a Legacy for Israel............................................. 8
Through a national insurance program, Anat was able to secure a
new computer for this impoverished family and the volunteer was now
charged with teaching Gideon to navigate the internet. Now when
his 16 year old daughter comes home from school, he is dressed and
ready. He feels she is not embarrassed by his condition and she can
show the computer to all her friends. “Anat, I need to tell you that this
changed my life,” Gideon told her recently, “now I don’t feel pitied.”
Anat Ben Zaken has been commuting to Yad Sarah in
Jerusalem from her home in Mevasseret Zion for the past 18 years.
After she received a Master’s degree in Social Work from Hebrew
University, Anat was hired to lead the organization’s home care and
social work services.
And lead she did.
“When I started, there was a group of 20 homebound older
people in Jerusalem who were visited at home by volunteers,” bringing
projects and activities such as sewing, arts and crafts, board games and
reading materials. The Homebound Outreach project has expanded to
Rishon LeZion and Kfar Saba, and Anat is always on the lookout for
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Adele Goldberg
Executive Director,
Friends of Yad Sarah.
Report from the Executive Director
Dear Friends,
Spring
2015
Inside Yad Sarah • Fall
2010
Yad Sarah is very proud of its statistics, as well they
should be: annually, more than 420,000 people in Israel
turn to Yad Sarah in time of need, borrowing home care
equipment, summoning help in an emergency, and
counting on accessible transportation for medical and
rehabilitation visits.
This organization — staffed largely by volunteers —
fills a critical need in the health care system as people
make a successful transition between hospital and
home. Recuperating at home yields considerable savings
for the Israeli health care system, relieving hospital
overcrowding and insuring the availability of inpatient
beds for critical care. And, let’s face it: home is where
we all want to be when we are not feeling well. Learn
more about Yad Sarah’s collaboration with hospitals and
communities in this issue of Inside Yad Sarah, and the
inspiring and supportive connections between branch
volunteers and people facing one of life’s greatest
challenges: a serious illness.
Many times, as in the case of Gidon, a former
maintenance worker in Rehovot, the equipment loan
is the gateway to other supportive services. As profiled
in this issue’s story on home care, Gidon and others
have benefited from homebound outreach, shifting the
focus from shame and disappointment to life-affirming
possibilities. When a client is isolated at home due to
illness or frailty, volunteers are reaching out, giving
what is — to many of us — the greatest gift of all: time.
Homebound clients struggling to cope find a Yad Sarah
volunteer helps to connect them to the community and
often becomes a cherished friend. Gidon is just one of
the 420,000+ people helped by Yad Sarah last year.
It is not only the client that is changed by the
experience. For Beverly, a Life Stories volunteer, her
regular visits with Benyamin brought a history lesson to
life and deepened her connection with Yad Sarah and
with the land of Israel.
It isn’t always easy for many of us to comprehend
the scale of Yad Sarah’s network of services. Each week
thousands of wheelchairs are loaned, returned, repaired
and loaned again. Dozens of vans crisscrossing Israel’s
cities and towns with special needs clients en route to
a health care visit or a social outing are on the road.
(Learn more about the impact of an accessible van on
page 7, in “Vans That Never Tire.”
Yes, with your help, 6,000+ Yad Sarah volunteers
including Nurit, Michal and Beverly, are empowered to
change the lives of others for the better. And thousands
of clients coping with changed circumstances such as
Gidon and Benyamin, are the fortunate recipients of the
resources made available by your generosity. Yad Sarah
is part of everyday life in Israel, and here at Friends of
Yad Sarah, we’re proud of your role. Thank you again
for helping to make all this vital and compassionate
work possible
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First Person Account:
everly Griffin, a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, was ready for a new
challenge. After a lengthy career in sales, she decided to spend
two years in Israel on a “volunteer visa.” Once a placement with special
needs children concluded, Beverly was ready for a fresh assignment. Her
network brought her to Yad Sarah. “With 6,000 volunteers, they’ll always
take one more,” said Beverly.
Beverly’s volunteer assignment was with The Life Stories Program,
a key component of Yad Sarah’s homebound outreach initiative. The
program was originally envisioned as a program for Holocaust survivors
and now, 16 years later, the program has expanded beyond Holocaust
survivors to include Israeli-born Sabras, and immigrants from countries
around the world
Paired with Benyamin Yosef of Jerusalem, Beverly spent 8 months
recording and transcribing the story of his life through weekly visits.
Over many hours, Beverly helped Benyamin trace the story arc of his
life, putting his pioneering spirit and the details of his work and daily
life onto the page. “I was enthralled by every visit, by some new piece
of his story he had to tell,” Beverly said of her visits with Benyamin. She
learned much about his early days in India and the strong influence of
a benevolent uncle on his life. He served in the British Army in India
and made Aliyah in 1950, his “dream come true!” Beverly also recorded
Benyamin’s philosophy and attitudes about his religious observance,
which she found enlightening and surprising.
Volunteers like Beverly help participants reflect on their lives,
gather photographs and other memorabilia, and create a book that is
printed and bound. The process of telling and recording a life story is a
restoring and empowering experience for the subject and transformative
for the volunteer as well. Volunteers bear witness to life experiences
that are important individual and family legacies and have unique
historical value, carefully charting the migrations of families and
communities to Israel, documenting first-person accounts of historical
events, and detailing small anecdotes that lend color and flavor to a
historical narrative.
Many participants have
never spoken of their
experiences before, but
now in their later years
or facing a serious health
issue, feel a strong urge
to leave a permanent
record for their families
and the world.
Though Beverly was responsible for transcribing his story, she was
careful not to edit his words. “I wanted his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren to hear his voice, as much as you possibly can, through
the written word.” She listened carefully to stories of his involvement in
the Six Day War, describing his experience and actions as heroic. And she
made sure to document his role in building and construction, efforts that
provided much needed housing for other newly arriving families like his.
After volunteering in Israel for two years, Beverly is back in the U.S.
but eager to return to Yad Sarah in Israel. She knows that Benyamin’s
Life Story is in his hands for review with his family and looks forward
to seeing the finished product – a transcript interspersed with photos
and memories and preserved for future generations. Benyamin’s
story is one of more than 300 “life stories” archived at Yad Sarah
House in Jerusalem.
Beverly added, “now Benyamin’s story will live on to inspire
others, and inform them about this tiny yet thriving oasis in the
desert, called Eretz Yisrael.”
Beverly and Benyamin
“I wanted his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren to hear his voice, as much as
you possibly can, through the written word.”
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Unique personal histories preserved with
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Leaving the Hospital Behind
Hospital-based branches provide the bridge
between in-patient care and home.
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Inside Yad Sarah • Spring 2015
he volunteers at the Yad Sarah branch in Haifa’s Rambam Medical
Center were closing the door and locking up for the night when a man
approached Nurit Zinger, the branch manager. “I don’t know what to do,”
he told Nurit and a member of her team. His wife was receiving treatment
on the hospital’s Oncology service and her prognosis was poor. He wanted
to help her do as much for herself as possible. He wanted to take her home.
They suggested that he borrow a walker. As her illness progressed, he
returned and swapped the walker for a wheelchair.
Nurit knew precisely what the ill woman could use. A nurse by
profession, Nurit spent her career at Rambam, working with newborns, on
the Hematology unit and later as a nursing supervisor. Two years after she
retired, she came to Yad Sarah at Rambam as a volunteer branch manager.
Nurit’s nursing background and her connections at Rambam have
helped this branch become an integral part of the discharge planning at
Haifa’s largest regional medical center. “We [Yad Sarah] help people to get
out of the hospital easier and faster,” she explained. With a Lending Service
on the hospital premises, “we shorten the process and we help the hospital
to make the beds available and care for more people.”
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Nurit Zinger (left),
Branch Manager
at Yad Sarah’s
Rambam Medical
Center location,
assists in lending
equipment.
During Operation Protective Edge, the wounded were brought to Negev
area hospitals and Yad Sarah branches were prepared. Yad Sarah’s branch at
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva helped to facilitate hospital discharge for
wounded soldiers, enabling them to return home to the care of their families
and communities. Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon does not have a Lending
Service branch; Yad Sarah volunteers made it easier on wounded soldiers and
their families by parking a “mobile” branch outside the hospital – a truck, filled
with home care equipment to enable them to take equipment home with them
when leaving the hospital. Some soldiers simply needed a pair of crutches,
others who were more seriously injured required specialized hospital beds
delivered to their homes. “The range of equipment available through Yad Sarah
enabled the organization to respond quickly to a variety of needs,” said David
Rothner, Yad Sarah’s spokesperson.
Michal Pri-Har manages the branch at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, one
of the many hospital-based branches reinforced with extra equipment and
volunteer staff in the wake of Operation Protective Edge. Like Nurit, she is also
a retired nurse, with a wealth of experience with mothers and children. She
delights in lending equipment, and like Nurit and the volunteers at Rambam,
“The range of equipment available through
Michal dispenses advice to make things easier and more comfortable. She
Yad Sarah enabled the organization to
recalled an experience with an expectant mother, sent home with a TENS
respond quickly to a variety of needs.”
unit to help relieve discomfort. The new family returned with a
newborn to borrow a bassinet, an infant scale and a breast milk
In recent news reports, the issue of hospital
pump, expressing their gratitude with a bouquet of flowers.
overcrowding in Israel is heating up, with noted
Michal also noted that tourists are among the frequent
experts decrying the shift of responsibility for medical
visitors to this centrally located branch, borrowing equipment for
care from the government to non-governmental
their stay in Israel to make hotel rooms, rented apartments or guest
organizations. This puts pressure on Yad Sarah and its
accommodations with family as comfortable and safe as possible.
hospital-based branches to help prepare people for a
But Michal also reports a more serious trend, underscoring the
safe transition from in-patient care to home. A successful
value
of a hospital based branch: “It is a big hospital,” she explained,
transition leads to low rates of readmission, is more
somewhat apologetically, “there isn’t so much equipment to help
comfortable and healthier for the patient and family,
Michal Pri-Har, Branch
Manager at Yad Sarah’s
the patients.” She continued, “every day, people come and borrow
and is more cost-effective for the state.
Ichilov Hospital location.
special mattresses for prevention of bedsores” for relatives that are
Through training and commitment, volunteers like
still in-patients, noting that “they don’t have to go far” to get the right equipment.
Nurit are making it possible for people to leave the hospital faster and ease
Requests like these stretch Yad Sarah’s resources, targeted for in-home use, and
in-patient overcrowding. “It is different when people need oxygen, suction,”
are yet another example of the shift of responsibility for care to individuals,
Nurit explained, “we know how to prepare families to take someone home
families and non-governmental organizations For Yad Sarah, the support of
from the hospital,” adding that many families are not aware of what the
charitable gifts as well as volunteer time and expertise makes it possible for the
needs are. Preparing them and insuring they have the right equipment and
organization to act to help people in crisis.
friendly support helps them to cope, and is a great source of satisfaction
Balancing the heavy care needs of the older patients and their families
for Nurit and her team. Nurit describes the volunteers at Rambam as “like
with the joy in the arrivals of Israel’s tiniest new citizens is part of daily
a family,” a feeling shared by the gratitude expressed by the man caring
challenge for Michal and the volunteers at Ichilov. She related the story of a
for his wife. “This place is more than just an organization,” he told her, his
father who came in to borrow equipment on the birth of his twin daughters,
voice quaking with emotion, “how you teach me, how you give me the
reminding Michal that he and his wife already have a set of twins — 18
equipment,” prepared him to help his wife spend her final days at home.
months old. He told her that her help had been so invaluable they decided
The options for family members to make changes as the ill person’s needs
to name one of their newborns “Michal.” Not to be undone, she suggested a
change, the guidance on what is needed, and the emotional support from
name for the other — “Sarah.”
the family of volunteers, were exactly what was needed at that critical time.
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Yad Sarah is the first Israeli Jewish NGO recognized by the
UN’s Department of Public Information as well as the Economic and
Social Council.
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Yad Sarah provides special needs transportation to Israeli military
cemeteries on Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers. 3
Yehuda Luski, age 96, is the organization’s oldest volunteer. He reports
regularly to the equipment repair workshop at the multi-service center
in Rishon LeZion.
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Yad Riva volunteers provide legal information and representation in
Hebrew, English, Russian Arabic and Amharic. 5
Wheelchairs are the #1 item requested at Yad Sarah Lending branches;
Breast milk pumps are #2. 6
Yad Sarah’s branch in Kfar Kama serves Israel’s Circassian community. The signs for the branch are in Hebrew, Arabic, English and Cyrillic. 7
Friends of Yad Sarah’s office space in New York City is donated, enabling
more charitable dollars to go directly to where it is needed: service. 8
Yad Sarah’s multi-service center in Raanana also has a beauty
salon. Cosmetology students come to the branch to cut and style hair for
the Day Rehab clients to look good and to feel good!
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Sherut Leumi, or National Service, provides volunteers for Yad Sarah’s
headquarters. As office assistants, these recent high school grads gain
some valuable job readiness skills!
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Yad Sarah’s regional center in Beersheva has solar energy cells on its
roof, converting the desert sun into air conditioning for the building.
Hospital-Based Branches:
Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poriya, Tiberias
Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, Ramat Gan
Hadassah University Hospital-Ein Kerem, Jerusalem
Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
HaEmek Medical Center, Afula
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera
Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva
Rambam Medical Center, Haifa
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital), Tel Aviv
Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya
Ziv Medical Center, Safed
Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem
Anat (left),
surrounded by
people from
the Yad Sarah
community
she serves.
Homebound Outreach: Changing Lives
One at a Time (continued from page 1)
suitable volunteers, arranging and facilitating training sessions
and making “matches” between clients and volunteers.
A major focus of the Home Care Services department
for the past 5 years is the Caregiver Support Center, a
collaborative project with Eshel, the association for planning
and development of services for the elderly in Israel. Yad Sarah
is offering one-on-one counseling as well as support groups
in Jerusalem, Rishon LeZion, and Beersheva. “Today,” Anat
proudly announced, “we started interviewing volunteers for
the program in Kfar Saba and we will start meeting potential
volunteers in Haifa” after the Passover holiday.
Describing the program, the right mix of volunteers is
vital to the program’s success. Anat seeks and carefully selects
volunteers with a background in social work, psychology,
education. Training comes next: familiarizing new volunteers
with issues common to family caregivers, i.e. coping with guilt,
grief and bereavement, as well as community resources. In
the Jerusalem area alone, there are 8 caregiver support groups
with 115 participants. Rishon Lezion has one group with 14
participants.
One of the participants in Jerusalem is Idit, caring for
her 75 year old mother. The older woman is blind and in
treatment for Hodgkin’s disease. The schedule of chemotherapy
treatments overwhelmed Idit, and she sought out help at Yad
Sarah. Anat and her team offered Idit individual counseling
and support, and enrolled her in a family caregiver support
group. A compassionate volunteer was assigned to the mother
to help her arrange her papers, to work on a craft project and
to take her for walks outdoors, a low-key setting for the trained
volunteer and the older woman to discuss her fears about
her illness. In the meantime, Anat reports that Idit has made
considerable progress on coping with her mother’s illness and
her supportive role. Anat said Idit’s biggest lesson: finding out
she is not alone and realizing that she can – and needs to –
look after her own needs as she cares for her mother.
What’s up next for Anat and the Home and Community
Services program? Anat is planning to establish a professional
and social center for older adults to address issues of loneliness
and isolation.
Stay tuned.
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ALL ABOUT YAD SARAH
YAD SARAH VITAL STATISTICS 2014
EMERGENCY ALARMS
19,500
Subscribers
120,000
Total Incoming Calls
12,000
26 HOMEBOUND
PROJECTS CENTERS
60,000
Repairs
40 YAD SARAH VANS
Geriatric
Dental Clinics
Visits
Per
Year
135,000 7,200
15,300
5 DAY
REHABILITATION
CENTERS
28,800
Visits
Per
Year
Cases in 20 Locations
2,300
Inquiries
HEALTH &
FITNESS CENTER
6,600
Visits
Visits
BRANCHES
LOANS OF MEDICAL/
REHAB EQUIPMENT
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8,000
DA’AT MEDICAL
INFORMATION SERVICE
Treatments Per Year
(Stationary, mobile & portable)
PEOPLE HELPED PER YEAR
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Yad Riva Legal Aid
to the Elderly
Play Center for
CHILDREN WITH
SPECIAL NEEDS
3,700
VISITS TO 8 GUIDANCE
& EXHIBITION CENTERS
170,000
Home Visits
Per Year
True Emergency Calls
Trips
Per Year
EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE
CENTERS
VOLUNTEERS
VOLUNTEER HOURS
PER YEAR
420,000
100+
More
Than
in the
284,000 past
year
6,000+
1,000,000+
Yad Sarah, Israel’s largest volunteer-staffed
organization in Israel, provides a vital
array of compassionate health and home
services for people of all ages. Yad Sarah’s
free services are delivered by over 6,000
volunteers in more than 100 branches.
The people of Israel — and people with
special needs traveling to Israel — rely
on Yad Sarah to help them remain
independent, healthy and at home.
Our programs and services include:
Medical Equipment Lending Centers
An inventory of over 350,000 items to be
loaned out at no cost to the borrowers.
Guidance and Exhibition Centers
Displaying equipment and daily living tools
available to help people with special needs
live independently.
Day Rehabilitation Centers
Physical and occupational therapy;
computer, art, drama and gardening
therapy; meals and social events for young
and old recovering from strokes, surgery,
illness and injury.
Geriatric Dental Clinic
A full range of specialized care for the
elderly provided by volunteer dentists
and including mobile treatment for the
homebound.
Yad Riva Legal Aid
Legal services, legal counseling, legal representation and social assistance for the
elderly provided by volunteer lawyers.
Emergency Alarm Center
Peace of mind for the elderly 24 hours a day
with two-way transmitters connected to Yad
Sarah’s national computerized system.
Outreach to the Homebound
Visits and projects to activate hands and
minds and raise morale of people isolated
at home.
Play Center and Toy Library
Providing a safe and supportive
environment for children with special
needs to learn and develop through play.
Transportation Services
Wheelchair-accessible rides to work,
school, medical appointments and social
occasions.
Yad Sarah vans go the extra kilometer
to help people in need
For David and Gail Weinstein of Lawrence, NY, the decision to
help Yad Sarah with a gift of a van was easy and meaningful.
“When I was in Israel,” David Weinstein said recently, “I realized the pervasive
influence of Yad Sarah’s programs and services, and nearly everyone I asked
told me how they or a family member had been helped. A woman from my
son’s community gave us a ride to Jerusalem for the dedication ceremony,”
David added, “she is caring for her 20 year old son who is recovering from a
motorcycle accident – Yad Sarah helped the family care for him at home.”
This wheelchair-accessible van, dedicated in remembrance of their loved
ones, will be stationed at the Netanya branch and provide special needs
transportation to residents of the surrounding area.
The Weinstein family of Lawrence, NY, at the January 2015 dedication
celebration in Jerusalem. This van will serve the community of Netanya.
Lee Friedman (middle) and her daughter (left), Joan Foster, both
of Houston, TX, and daughter-in-law Cindy Friedman (right) of
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, visited Israel in October 2014. Lee donated a
wheelchair-accessible van and a service van in remembrance of her
two sons, David L. Friedman and Roy H. Friedman. The wheelchairaccessible van serves the community of Rishon LeZion.
Yad Sarah has 40 wheelchair accessible vans throughout Israel. Volunteer
drivers take people with special needs to and from medical appointments,
school and work, social and family events. During the recent severe weather
in Israel, Yad Sarah vans were on the road — outfitted with snow chains —
enabling volunteers to take clients to dialysis and chemotherapy treatments.
These vans were also deployed to help evacuate people with special needs
from border towns during Operation Protective Edge in July 2014.
The transportation service has grown steadily since it began more than
fifteen years ago. The vans are on the road all the time, and are driven
by many different drivers, mostly volunteers, covering an average of 4050,000 kilometers a year. Given the long hours and routes, the vans must
be replaced every four or five years.
A day in the life of one of Yad Sarah’s Vans:
6:30 am depart from home station
6:45 am pick up five children with physical disabilities going to school
7:45 am pick up four adults with special needs going to
Yad Sarah Day Rehab Center
9:15 am bring man with special needs to work at Bank of Israel
10:00 am take one adult with special needs to National Insurance Institute.
11:00 am pick up three dialysis patients for transport to dialysis
unit at hospital, first shift
12:15 pm return passenger from National Insurance
1:00 pm return from Day Rehab Center
2:10 pm return from hospital
3:00 pm bring children home from school
4:00 pm change drivers
4:30 pm return trip for man with special needs from Bank of Israel
6:00 pm bring grandfather to grandson’s wedding
6:45 pm bring teenager to mall for shopping and fun
7:50 pm dialysis patients, second shift
9:00 pm return from mall
9:45 pm return from wedding
10:30 pm return from hospital Special Thanks to Anonymous Foundation C — in grateful appreciation
for an annual gift of two vans for Yad Sarah — since 2004!
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Vans That Never Tire
A bequest from Kitty Hoory will
ensure special needs transportation
services through Yad Sarah in the
Tel Aviv area. The van is named for
Anwar and Kitty Hoory.
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