Association activity
Adaptive Ski Instruction for disabled IDF Vets, athletes and kids
This unique project was launched in 2004 to use the particular and unique skills of the Alpine Unit to support IDF soldiers disabled by severe injuries, and empower them to overcome the different rehabilitation challenges and improve their physical and personal wellbeing through this sport. This highly specialized program is run by Erez instructors who are trained locally and abroad in assisted and escorted skiing and educated in post-trauma, anatomy and other relevant issues. With highly capable instructors and special equipment customized for amputees, paraplegics and others, this program offers participants of all ages and backgrounds of disability a meaningful experience of personal accomplishment and the opportunity to engage life more actively. Since the beginning of the program, 1000's have taken part in the different adaptive skiing activities.
Blind IDF Veterans Tandem Mountain Bike Group
This activity is designed to enable a group of disabled IDF blind people with exceptional physical fitness and personal abilities to participate in challenging field trips for the Land of Israel. The group has been formally active since 2014 and organizes challenging field trips with skilled volunteers. , We conduct challenging field trips in Israel and abroad for the disabled IDF in Israel.
The activity is carried out as part of the activity of the Erez Association for the Community.
Blind IDF Veterans Tandem Mountain Bike Group
This activity is designed to enable a group of disabled IDF blind people with exceptional physical fitness and personal abilities to participate in challenging field trips for the Land of Israel. The group has been formally active since 2014 and organizes challenging field trips with skilled volunteers. , We conduct challenging field trips in Israel and abroad for the disabled IDF in Israel.
The activity is carried out as part of the activity of the Erez Association for the Community.
Adaptive Kite Surfing Activity
Extreme water sports activities adapted to the limitations of the participants in collaboration with Extreme By Asa Bro.
The activity allows Erez members to undergo surfing training
KITE SURF with close professional guidance and guidance until complete independence.
The activity at Beit Yanai Beach and in Eilat throughout the months of the year.
Purpose of the activity: Empowerment, strengthening, independence and social integration for the guided with special needs, with an emphasis on graduates of snow skiing activities (amputees, paralyzed lower body).
Experience days for children with special needs
Experience days on Mount Hermon in the winter months for children hospitalized in the various departments (oncology, dialysis and more) in hospitals around the country and for children with various disabilities.
At the basis of the above initiative is the desire of Erez members, to contribute from their experience, in everything related to snow survival, to those children whose luck has not improved, and in this framework give them a day of experience and fun, make children smile and forget about their daily difficulties. Mount Hermon.
Rescue and locating missing persons
Over the past few years, members of the association have realized that the skills they have acquired may serve travelers and families in distress. Thus, even before its establishment, the association's members received a number of urgent applications from families whose children went on trips around the world and during which the travelers' traces were lost. In all those cases in which the members of the committee were asked to assist in locating and / or rescuing the young people, they immediately set about the task.
