Illness Doesn’t Take a Summer Break
Help a Sick Child Feel Like a Child Again
Bring Relief, Hope, and Joy to Sick Children and Families in Crisis Across Israel
From emergency meals to dreams come true, your gift helps a sick child’s family breathe again.
From emergency meals to dreams come true, your gift helps a sick child’s family breathe again.
When a Sick Child Has No Summer Break
Their family does not get a break either.
While other families look forward to summer plans, parents caring for a seriously ill child are still running to hospitals, missing work, sleeping beside hospital beds, and trying to hold everything together.
For these families, illness does not pause for financial stress, rising food costs, war, or exhaustion.
Parents are forced into impossible choices:
Food or bills.
Home or hospital.
Being at their child’s bedside – or keeping the family afloat.
Or Lacholeh provides practical, emotional, and dignity-preserving support for families in Israel caring for seriously ill children — at home, in the hospital, and through every stage of crisis.
Help Carry a Family
Through Their Hardest Days
Am Yisrael* is carrying battles most of us never see – and no family
caring for a seriously ill child should have to face them alone.
When a child is sick, the whole family needs support to keep going — food on the table, practical help through the day, and hope when everything feels overwhelming.
Your Support Provides:
Meals. Groceries. Household help. Hospital support. Therapy. Day trips. Birthday celebrations. Dreams come true.
Your gift does more than help pay the bills.
It gives a family relief.
It gives them dignity.
It gives them the strength to keep going.
And for a sick child, it gives back comfort, joy, and moments of childhood.
*the people of Israel
Sometimes relief is a hot meal after a hospital day.
Sometimes it is a birthday, a family outing, or one special dream.
One Diagnosis Changes Everything
Most families we help were managing — until serious illness forced a parent to stop working.
One phone call from a doctor can change a family’s life forever.
Suddenly, life is divided into “before” and “after”: before the diagnosis, before the hospital stays, before the endless questions, before the fear of what comes next.
For families caring for a seriously ill child, there is often no safety net.
No savings to fall back on.
No room for a missed paycheck.
No room for another bill.
No room for one more day away from work.
No room for one more emergency.
Your gift becomes the safety net when there isn’t one.
Make Dreams Come True
For a child facing serious illness, a dream is not a luxury. It is a moment of escape, courage, and joy — a chance to feel like a child again.
Doctors can treat the illness. Your gift can give a sick child a moment to dream.
Their days are filled with treatments, needles, fear, pain, and endless hospital visits. Your gift can bring something different: a birthday celebration, a family day out, a bike, a laptop, a room makeover, or one special dream that helps a sick child smile again.
A Bike Was More Than a Bike
When Neoray received his dream bike, his eyes lit up. For a moment, leukemia wasn’t stealing his childhood. It was more than a gift. It was freedom, joy, and the chance to feel like a regular kid again.
Watch the moment Neoray received his dream bike. Help give another sick child a moment of joy.
Update: Neoray has since been deceased. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
We share this video in his memory — a reminder that the joy, strength, and dignity created by one act of kindness can mean so much to a child facing illness.
Please keep Neoray’s family in your thoughts and tefillos. May his memory be for a blessing and may his family have much nechamah.
When illness takes so much, dreams give back more.
You can be the reason a child smiles again.
Choose how you can help a sick child’s family today.
One-Time Giving
When a child is seriously ill, the pressure on a family is immediate. Your gift today helps provide urgent care, practical support, and moments of hope when a family needs it most.
$54
Give a Smile
Provide toys, crafts, or a small surprise for a child in treatment.
$100
Give a Day of Relief
Help provide meals, groceries, or hospital support for a family in crisis.
$180
Bring Comfort Home
Support household help, basic essentials, or care for siblings at home.
$250
Return a Piece of Childhood
Help give a sick child a birthday celebration, family outing, tablet, bike, or one special dream come true.
$500
Help a Family Keep Going
Provide comprehensive home and hospital support to help a seriously ill child’s family keep going.
$800
Strengthen a Family in Crisis
Help provide therapy, tutoring, furniture, appliances, or critical practical support for a family under pressure.
Monthly Giving
Serious illness does not end after one hospital stay. Families need steady care — meals, sibling support, therapy, tutoring, moments of joy, and relief from the daily pressure.
Monthly giving helps Or Lacholeh be there again and again, when families need it most.
$18
/month
Helps provide ongoing care and encouragement for families facing serious illness.
$36
/month
Helps build steady support for meals, hospital care, or practical relief for a family in crisis.
$54
/month
Helps sustain year-round care for families carrying the daily weight of serious illness.
$136
/month
(12-month commitment)
Adopt a Family for the Year
Give one family facing serious illness the steady support they need to keep going —
month after month.
You’ll receive private family updates, a personal message, and a few meaningful
surprises along the way.
Client names and faces are protected to respect family privacy.
Support for the Days
No One Can Prepare For
When serious illness turns a family’s life upside down, the entire family is affected. Or Lacholeh provides the practical help, emotional care, and ongoing support families need to get through the days no one can prepare for.
Through our network of care, we help lighten the physical, emotional, and financial burden so parents and caregivers can focus on healing and caring for the people who need them most.
Help a sick child feel like a child again.
Give urgent relief, hope, and joy to a family in crisis.
What Your Donation Makes Possible
Crisis Relief
Emergency meals, food, clothing, and shopping vouchers — when families have nowhere else to turn.
Healing & Growth
Therapy and tutoring that rebuild confidence, restore hope, and strengthen futures.
Comprehensive Support
Ongoing home and hospital support, essential furnishings, and household help — month after month.
Dream Fulfillment
Making wishes come true and celebrating birthdays — moments of joy that carry children and families through the hardest days
Respite & Relief
Day outings, short getaways, live entertainment, fun days, and community events — giving families space to breathe, recharge, and reconnect.
Shabbos & Yom Tov (Holiday) Support
Shabbos care packages, vouchers, holiday help, and essential support that bring comfort, dignity, and stability during the hardest times.
Families in Crisis Across Israel Can’t Wait
Illness doesn’t end when families leave the hospital. When a parent stops working to care for a sick child, everyday needs quickly fall out of reach. Or Lacholeh quietly steps in — bringing food, relief, and chesed* families can rely on.
The need is immediate. Families cannot do this alone.
Because relief means:
A full Shabbos table.
A calmer home.
A supported parent.
A child and family who feel cared for.
Give now so no family faces serious illness alone.
*Chesed: acts of kindness
Ready to help a family in crisis?
Your gift brings relief to families in crisis — and gives sick children moments of joy,
comfort, and childhood.
Choose your impact — honor someone, give monthly, or sponsor a program.
Join in the mitzvah of bikur cholim.
Milestone Celebrations
Mark special occasions by bringing hope to families in crisis.
