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place, a club where they could
come-
She never waited for people to
come to her: she pursued them.
O ne 89-year-old woman, blind and
handicapped in a wheelchair, was
covered in flies. Myriam returned
with spray to try and keep the
woman free of the pests. The woman
in distress said, “My child, don’t
you like me?” Myriam, puzzled,
replied, “Of course.” The woman
said, "But, you are taking away the
only job 1 have...to swat flies."
It was that woman and Myriam’s
love for the young that challenged
her to create something for the old
to do. Thus was born Lifeline...and
its motto, “God give me life while 1
work and work while I live." A
participant in the program coined
Lifeline as “a place where old peo
ple forget to die.”
Myriam pointed to the beautiful
necklace which she always wears.
It was made by a blind man. “It
took months and months,” Myriam
remembered vividly, “to teach him
to make the beads, since each con
sisted of the same size and thick
ness. Now he makes them so quick
ly we have to keep up with him.”
This is one of Myriam’s treasures.
This particular necklace was the
first one he ever made.
Recently one of her workers had
to go to the hospital. A triple
amputee, a man with only two fin
gers. he worked daily. His greatest
worry was, “who will finish my
work while I am gone?” Myriam
told him not to worry, but stressed
how he would be missed." Unknown
to anyone, his work couldn’t be
used, but this was Myriam’s secret.
The man didn’t return—he died
days later—but he had a purpose
that made his life worthwhile.
Myriam continues to potential-
ize her goals. Thousands of youth
enter Lifeline as volunteers and as
visitors and her “inter-generational
program” educates the young of
the value of the old by direct in
volvement. One nearby school
which visits regularly raised 5330
by “selling themselves.” One boy
promised his parents he wouldn’t
grow his beard back for one year
and earned 90 shekels. Another
girl offered to do her calligraphy,
and the list goes on.
No one is left out in Myriam’s
world. Teachers are sent to the
bedridden, along with meals on
wheels. Mentally disabled patients
are brought with their nurses to
Lifeline to learn skills. Doctors
rave to Myriam how remarkable
her medicine is—they claim they
see no better. Yet hundreds are on
Myriam’s waiting list. She says she
needs three things. The first is crea
tive minds, the second is robust
hands and only if people can’t give
the first two, then financial sup
port is next. She emphatically urges
the critical nature of the first two
and she certainly models her words
with her own actions.
Yet, Myriam claims her life has
been useful because of those friends
who accepted her work. “Where
would I be without the Adele Blue-
menthals, Rita Goldsteins, the Max
KunianskysT’
Myriam has friends around the
world. Whether she’s greeting her
450 workers five days a week at 8
o’clock each morning or lecturing
at Harvard University or to Con
gress on alternatives for the old,
she is a worldwide authority and
hopes that Lifeline will be a pilot
project for others.
As we talk, Myriam points to the
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Myriam Mendilow has paved
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