"Superwoman" Asmahan Abu-Yeheya, a resident of Israel's Bedouin sector in Gan Yavne, has volunteered for Magen David Adom (MDA) for the past 16 years, all the while raising six children and working two jobs. Amid the coronavirus, Abu Yeheya has continued to volunteer for MDA.
Beyond her role at MDA, Abu-Yeheya is a certified preschool teacher, while also working as a medical secretary at an orthopedic clinic and a volunteer operations officer for the Gan Yavne Rescue Unit.
A single mother to six children, with the youngest being 10-years-old, Abu-Yeheya has continued to fulfill her duty to helping people.
"I get support from the kids," Abu-Yeheya said.
"If I'm in a bad mood, they tell me to go to a MDA shift because they know it will do me good. Doing and giving gives me a lot of satisfaction, and I feel at any given moment that I am part of the warm and supportive MDA family," Abu-Yeheya added.
Abu-Yeheya remarked on the importance of helping others, saying that "When I treat an older woman, I treat her like she is my grandmother. Every time I think about the person in the ambulance when he is in pain and scared, and sometimes I am the only person they have, my job is first and foremost to give him the best medical care, but I believe it is very important that I be both humane and caring."
Amid the coronavirus impacting the country, Abu-Yeheya underwent training to obtain samples from people possibly infected with the virus.
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