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Bonei Olam Sephardic Division Promotional Video
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we were never there to have children our
own
actually we turned the world over for
children in the end even just for one
child but nothing really worked when it
came the final day
when the doctor told us you know it
hurts me to tell you but
it's time for closure it's not going to
happen anymore in your lifetime we were
driving down
in the city very deep and thought and
quiet and all of a sudden my wife says
you know
the road for us has come to an end
hashem has told us no
but you know we're going to answer to
hashem a resounding yes
he says honey what are you talking about
she says we are going to now help
claudison have children
infertility is a very very very painful
experience to go through you feel alone
it really really isolates you
and it's just beautiful that there's a
an
organization like monet that wants to
step it up and wants to help
our goal was primarily to raise enough
money for a couple to have a chance to
have a baby
ivf is very expensive medicine is very
expensive
i know what this means not getting back
your blood work because your bill is not
paid
many people in the world out there don't
even understand what we're talking about
but this is painful hurtful and
extremely extremely expensive
one time we were together a group of
people being serviced in a hospital
which is not in the united states
my next-door neighbor was a couple
living in muncie new york
they came over to us and they told me my
wife we were told this morning that if
we don't change our medication
we can go home they need a few thousand
dollars to buy at that morning
entire cache of medicine so my wife does
michelle what should i do i only have
for ourselves so i've made a decision
you know so far we don't need to change
medication let's give them the money
don't worry what happens to us
bottom line was they came home with
twins from that cycle
that was the first loan that i
personally gave so honey told me that
time this islam
even for one baby it's going to be worth
it
my second primary goal was to be able
to guide people through the procedure
whether they need my money or not
the world comes to bernie ola just for
genetic questions
i could call rabbi bachmann and ask him
something and he
is like an encyclopedia i had personally
spent on this
entire scientific program tens of
millions of dollars
we identified by now close to 30 new
mutations in other words we never knew
which gene is responsible for certain
issues
there's no reason that a couple going
through this should be going through
this alone
it's hard enough to be struggling to
have to do it all by yourself it's just
too much to bear
whether the couple needs emotional
support financial
support or medical guidance is there to
help in the ashkenazic community
this was my job to bring this issue out
in the public
this is a medical issue come and ask for
help because there's a lot more help
available than
actual people believe there is my
connection to the syrian community
runs deep and very long i was very
closely connected
he actually never pronounced my
ashkenazic name which is to say your
name is
as time grew more people came from the
community
in hashem i have to say i answered every
call
infertility is more common than people
think it is in our community
i actually just got a phone call five
minutes before i got here
about a couple that's trying to have a
baby they're 41 years old and time is of
the essence
i'm very involved in helping a lot of
non-jewish people i'm involved with
every segment of the jewish population i
don't care who you are
how you go dressed how religious you are
it doesn't matter to me at all because
there's a human side over here
so i've learned when it comes to pain
especially this hurts
we're going to do everything and
anything possible to help anybody cross
this bridge
by now hashem we are close to 10
000 children that we paid for in other
words we have at least
double that amount that never needed my
money just my guidance
my work my sweat we had put together by
now for bernie alam
from day one approximately 160 million
this campaign that we're doing now i
just want people to understand
i have unfortunately from the safari
community just as many
patients and customers as i have from
all over the world i know personally
many couples that have never moved on
they started the initial beginning and
then they
they went into into the freeze mode
because they just could not afford
all the money that gets raised goes
directly to our community members that
are struggling with this challenge
what hashem sees that other people get
involved hashem will answer those two
and it will end with success this reset
from bernard
there is no expiration there's no time
attached to it it's eternity
it's a child it's grandchildren
great-grandchildren you can't do more
than what a person walks into you with
no children and walks away with a baby
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