Society and Community
Egged places particular importance on its contribution to society and strives to promote related initiatives. As Egged’s core business is mass transportation we are trying to ensure that our contribution to the community focuses mainly on transportation and other bus supplying activities.
Employing Underprivileged Youth
Egged employs 70 underprivileged youngsters in its garages which help provide them with a normative environment. The youngsters, who work in Egged’s garages on a part time basis, are studying at trade schools after having been rejected or not having adapted to regular educational frameworks. In addition to their educational framework, their work enables them to gain experience from Egged’s professional employees, earn a salary and receive meals etc,
Operating the ‘Nechonit’
Egged has operated the ‘Nechonit’ service since 1984. It is assigned to transport the disabled members of the National Paraplegic Association in a special-purpose vehicle. Egged finances the cost of the two drivers operating the service (additional details are listed on 20 of the 2004 report).
Assisting the ‘Ofanim’ Association
Egged assists the ‘Ofanim’ association which organizes computer training for children from needy families in outlying areas (mainly in the northern and western Negev as well as the Bet Shean valley). Egged donated a bus which was converted into a classroom; the donation also included a low-cost non-profit repair and handling service for additional buses that were sold to them at a reduced price.
Donations
Egged donates both money and other service-based contributions
to various organizations in Israel. Financial donations are given
to a wide range of associations and organizations such as The
Israel Cancer Association, The Center for the Blind in Israel, The
Israel Sports Center for the Disabled, The Israel National Heart
to Heart Association, The Association for Honorable Living ,
Yachad Betikva Association, The Charitable Heart Association –
Assistance Center for the Sick and Needy , The Association for
Fighting AT (Ataxia-telangiectasia) Disease in Israel, The Tel Aviv-
Jaffa Food Distribution Center, The Yad Hachesed Organization,
The Israeli Spirit Organization for Children in Distress, The Rafaeh
Organization (Medicine According to Jewish Religious Law ), The
Juvenile Diabetes Association in Israel, The Association of the
Deaf in Israel, Yad Sarah, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Israel,
the Pitchon Lev Organization, Beit Ruth – Hostel for Teenage Girls
at Risk, The Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers,
The Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind, the Kav Lachayim
Organization and others. In addition, transportation services are donated
to associations such as The Israel Cancer
Association, The Ilan Organization, The Akim
Organization, Yad Sarah and Ezer Mizion.
Transportation services are also donated to the
Paratrooper Widows & Orphans Organization for
orphan Bar/Bat Mitzvah services as well as to
other organizations on special national donor
days.
Beersheba – Arad Branch
Drivers belonging to the Beersheba – Arad branch,
which transports the Dead Sea Hotels employees,
play an active role in the transportation of
the food donated by the hotels to ‘Berkat Lili’,
a Nutrition Welfare Center in Arad. Each day
the branch drivers use the bus storage area to
transfer food containers from the Isrotel Group’s
Crowne Plaza and Daniel Dead Sea Hotels to
Arad and by doing so, play an integral part in the
continued existence of this project.
‘Berkat Lili’, the Nutrition Welfare Center in Arad
was established and is maintained by ‘Table to
Table’, a national organization that collects and
distributes excess food for the needy.