When a Child Is Sick, the Whole Family Needs Care.
While doctors treat the child, Or Lacholeh helps hold the family together.
Be there with food, support, and hope when a family’s world has been turned upside down.
Help Heal 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 Child Is Sick, the Whole Family Needs Care.
A sick child needs treatment. A family needs support.
A serious illness does not only affect the child in treatment. It can turn an entire family’s life upside down.
Parents are pulled between home and hospital. School gets interrupted. Siblings still need attention. Fear moves in. Exhaustion takes over.
And the everyday things that once felt manageable can suddenly feel impossible.
Your gift helps a family keep going through the weight of illness.
Illness Can Disrupt Everything a Family Depends On.
Or Lacholeh provides the practical support a family needs when everything else has stopped — meals, babysitting, household help, furniture, appliances, emergency expenses, emotional therapy, tutoring, and Shabbat support — so parents can focus on the child who needs them most.
Help Carry a Family
Through Their Hardest Days
Illness Changes More Than Health.
Am Yisrael is carrying battles most of us never see.
Most families are managing ordinary life — school, work, Shabbat, errands, homework, meals, and everything it takes to keep a home running.
Then serious illness changes everything.
A parent may spend days beside a hospital bed. A child may fall behind in school. Siblings may struggle quietly. Parents carry fear, exhaustion, and financial pressure while still trying to care for everyone else.
Healing has to go beyond the hospital room.
Your support can provide home and hospital assistance, childcare, Shabbat support, family events, Nights of Inspiration, and urgent practical and emotional relief.
Support is not only about getting through the day. It is about helping a family hold together, feel supported by a community, and find strength for the road ahead.
Sometimes that means tutoring for a child who has missed weeks of school. Sometimes it means therapy for an exhausted parent. And sometimes it means simply having someone step in and say:
“You stay with your child. We’ll help with the rest.”
BE THERE FOR A FAMILY TODAY
Your gift tells a family in crisis: Someone sees you.
Someone is here. You do not have to carry this alone.
A Sick Child Needs Treatment. A Family Needs Support.
Help with everyday needs when life is turned upside down.
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.
Choose how you can help a sick child’s family today.
Giving Levels
When a child is seriously ill, the whole family feels it. Your gift provides practical, emotional, and educational support to help them keep going.
$54
Bring Immediate Relief
Hospital comfort items, a Shabbat package, or urgent essentials.
$100
Help a Family Keep Going
Childcare, household help, or everyday support.
$180
Restore Stability at Home
Tutoring, household needs, support for siblings, therapy, or other practical family support.
$250
Help a Family Prepare for Rosh Hashanah
Food, clothing, or shopping vouchers so a family can enter Yom Tov with dignity.
$500
Carry More of the Burden
Comprehensive home and hospital support for a family in crisis.
$800
Strengthen a Family Through Crisis
Help meet larger needs such as therapy, tutoring, furniture, appliances, or urgent family support.
Monthly Giving
Serious illness can last for months. Monthly giving helps Or Lacholeh be there again and again — at home, in the hospital, and through every stage of treatment.
$18
/month
Be There Every Month
Provide ongoing practical help and encouragement to a family facing illness.
$36
/month
Give Steady Relief
Help with household, hospital, Shabbat, and everyday family needs throughout the year.
$54
/month
Help a Family Stay Strong
Provide consistent support that helps restore stability, routine, and dignity.
$136
/month
(12-month commitment)
Adopt a Family for the Year
Give one family steady support month after month — helping with practical needs, emotional care, education, and the challenges of long-term illness.
Receive private family updates, a personal message, and meaningful surprises throughout the year. Family names and faces remain protected.
No Family Should Face Serious Illness Alone.
Give them stability, dignity, and someone beside them.
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.
