Ortech began its journey in the early 2000s, making anti-blast windows and doors, slowly graduating to manufacturing full-on bomb shelters.

Children in southern Israel show how they run into a bomb shelter during rocket attacks from Hamas.

Thanks to the generosity of UWI supporters, a large bomb shelter was deployed at a road safety school in Ashkelon that serves thousands of Israeli children.

I experienced two firsts: running educational summer camps for underprivileged children in Israeli development towns and my first wartime experience.

"People in Israel are tired of continuously being on the receiving end of rockets," UWI Executive Director David Zeit declares on Canadian national TV.

Experience what it means to have only 15 seconds to find shelter before the rocket explosion. Enough time to get everyone to safety?