By Abigail Klein Leichman - May 5, 2020
Israeli humanitarian aid nonprofits SmartAID and IsraAID have teams across the world distributing personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies to healthcare workers, law enforcers, firefighters and others during the coronavirus crisis.
SmartAID partnered with Third Wave Volunteers and DHL to deliver PPE to hospitals in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, New Jersey and other cities across the US East Coast, said Founding Director Shachar Zahavi.
SmartAID also worked with local partners to supply PPE to health centers in Puerto Rico and Haiti and to five hospitals in Sydney, Australia.
In coordination with charitable organizations, equipment will be shipped by DHL from Australia to the Dohuk region in northern Iraq to aid thousands of Yazidi, Kurdish and Syrian refugees.
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