💔Sarit is fighting a spinal tumor. When illness strikes, hunger follows. Help Sarit’s children and family survive.
Hospital Life Leaves Little Room For Childhood
Days are filled with tests, medications, and waiting, all in the same room, with little change. Birthdays arrive with no buildup. Holidays pass quietly. Activities that once gave children energy, confidence, and connection are suddenly gone.
Parents watch their child grow withdrawn, siblings feel it too, as family life narrows around hospital schedules and exhaustion.
Joy it is essential to emotional strength and resilience. Through Celebrations That Heal, we bring birthdays, holidays, activities, and shared experiences directly to children and families living inside medical systems.
These moments break the routine. They give children something real to anticipate, creating, laughter and connection. Celebrations don’t cure illness, but they change how families live through it.
Every child deserves to feel celebrated on their day. We transform sterile hospital rooms into wonderlands with custom cakes, decorations, music, and surprises.
We ensure families isolated by illness reconnect with tradition, family, and community.
Musicians, magicians, and interactive fun create afternoons where children forget they’re patients.
Large-scale gatherings where families facing similar battles meet, share strength, and build friendships that sustain them.
Your donation restores energy, connection, and joy.
Give families something to look forward to!
is needed to continue providing celebrations, activities, and community gatherings for children and families facing serious illness.
Research consistently shows that emotional well-being plays a critical role in physical recovery. Reduced stress, positive mood, and social connection are linked to better immune function, improved treatment adherence, and faster healing. Joy is not separate from recovery — it supports it.
Provides cake and decorations to turn a missed birthday into pure joy.
Brings an isolated family to a warm, festive holiday event.
Sponsors music, magic, and interactive entertainment that helps children forget they’re patients.
Helps multiple families connect, celebrate, and build friendships that sustain them long after Or Lacholeh events end.
Don’t let their special day become just another hospital day
Please select your country below to receive a tax-deductible receipt:
miri@healisrael.org for account info
miri@healisrael.org for account info
Or Lacholeh PO Box 5300
Jerusalem, Israel 9105201
miri@healisrael.org for account info
UK Gives
Please specify “Or Lacholeh – Amuta #580627016”
483 Green Lanes London, England N134BS
Contact Miri for bank transfer details: miri@healisrael.org
Bestow Canada Foundation
Canadian Charity # 764745139RR0001
Please specify “Or Lacholeh – Amuta #580627016”
2482 Yonge St #4152
Toronto, ON M4P 2H5 Canada
*not tax deductible
*not tax deductible
Other Ways to Give
For more questions, contact: miri@healisrael.org
*Online donations in the USA, Israel, UK, & Canada are processed through our Israel Gives donation form for a tax deductible receipt