When Crisis Strikes, Families Need You
Every day, a family’s world changes in an instant when illness strikes. Parents choose between paying medical bills and buying food for their children. Elderly patients can’t afford the care they desperately need. Children spend birthdays in hospital rooms instead of at home with friends. Right now, families are fighting battles they never imagined – but they don’t have to fight alone. Your support brings hope to their darkest moments: hot meals when they can’t leave the hospital, emotional support when they feel lost, and moments of joy when everything feels impossible. When someone is fighting for their health, you can be their lifeline.
Feed Families
When medical bills pile up, families choose between medicine and meals. No child should go hungry while their loved one heals.
Provide Support
Parents facing their child’s illness feel terrified and alone. Emotional and Educational Support restore hope during the darkest times.
Respite and Relief
When families rush to the hospital, they leave everything behind. Cllothing vouchers, hygiene items, household needs, and basic necessities restore dignity during their hardest moments.
Create Joy
Hospital rooms steal childhood magic. Birthday parties, events, and special moments bring smiles back to sick children.
The Most Powerful Medicine 
Can't Be Prescribed
A child facing serious illness endures what no child 
should: endless treatments, painful procedures, and the 
theft of their childhood.
Or Lacholeh’s year-round support transforms hospital beds into safe places, delivers meals to families in crisis, and fulfills dreams that bring light to even the darkest days.
Children & Families Who Can't Wait
Lives in the Balance: Efrat's Story
Efrat is 12 years old – fighting cancer for the third time. Her parents sacrificed everything to stay by her side.
The cancer has returned this time, to her brain and spine.
Her parents left their jobs for round-the-clock care but now face impossible medical bills for the surgery that could save their daughter’s life.
When illness strikes, families face overwhelming emotional, financial, and practical challenges they never imagined. Whether from serious illness, natural disasters, or the aftermath of war, Or Lacholeh ensures no family battling illness faces these hardships alone—providing compassionate support that eases burdens and restores hope. When children and families need it most, your gift brings light to their most desperate moments.
With your help , a desperate family will find hope tonight
Respite and Relief
Families receive B&B stays and vacation homes to recharge.
Comprehensive Support
From therapy and practical assistance to Educational Tutoring, we’re there to help.
Empowerment
Families receive food, clothing, and shopping vouchers for over 90 stores — preserving dignity and offering real choice in hard times.
Dream Fulfilment
Patients experience moments of joy through personalized dreams.
Rays of Light in Numbers
With the help of our donors & volunteers, here is what we accomplish throughout the year.
92,000
Hot Meals Delivered
Delivered to hospitals and homes, providing nourishment and care.
250
Dreams Fulfilled
Created moments of joy, wishes fulfilled, and inspiration for patients.
60
Families Restored
Enjoyed respite stays in vacation homes, fostering strength and hope.
2,250
Children & Families Nourished
Provided food and clothing vouchers, emotional therapies, and educational tutoring to foster resilience.
1,650
Smiling Children
Enjoyed outings filled with joy, laughter, and cherished memories.
Making Dreams
Come True
Food, Clothing,
and Essentials
 Home & Hospital
Support
Education
Support
Emotional Therapy
& Support
Celebrations
That Heal
Healing
Getaways
Hope for
the Holidays
Every dollar makes a difference, really
Funds emotional therapy & tutors for a child or adult.
Makes a dream come true for a patient.
Supports a family with food and clothing vouchers & other essentials.
Give the gift of relief and provide a rejuvenating getaway for a family in need.
Donations to Or Lacholeh are Tax Deductible in the USA and Israel.
