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Source: http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-grassroots-lifesaving-model-goes-international/
Israeli NGO Establishes Teams of Life-Saving First Responders Worldwide
(israel21c) Abigail Klein Leichman - United Hatzalah/United Rescue is training neighborhood first-responder volunteers in cities across North and South America, Europe and India. Founded in 2006 in Israel, United Hatzalah's 3,000 volunteers have treated 1.6 million people. The organization also sends humanitarian-aid teams to disaster areas around the world. In recent years, cities in Brazil, Panama, Argentina, India, Lithuania, New Jersey and Michigan have asked the Israeli NGO to help them set up similar systems to get aid to victims of accidents and illness within three minutes. "In Israel we have Christian, Muslim, Druze and Bedouin volunteers alongside Jewish volunteers," says Dov Maisel, UH director of international operations. "We are a nonprofit NGO teaching people how to save people, no matter who they are or where they are."