Women in Israel’s periphery often endure long travel times, costly transportation, and reduced access to multidisciplinary cancer care. Lemonade Fund grants provide urgent, tailored assistance for non-medical essentials—such as transportation, childcare, housing support, and household help—so patients can focus on healing rather than financial distress.
Primary goal of this program
The primary goal of this program is to address the severe social, economic, and geographic inequities faced by women living in Israel’s northern and southern peripheries who are newly diagnosed with breast or gynecological cancer. We aim to ensure that women from underserved towns, villages, and rural communities can undergo treatment with dignity and without financial collapse.
Applicants who will benefit
Residents of Israel’s northern or southern periphery: Negev, Eilat, Galilee, Upper Galilee, Golan Heights
Why is this program so important?
Cancer is financially devastating under any circumstance. For women in the periphery, the added burden of travel, lost work hours, and limited local support can push families to the brink—risking eviction, food insecurity, or delayed treatment. The Empowering the Periphery Program provides essential supplemental support so women can remain housed, reach their treatments on time, and maintain stability throughout their cancer journey.
Recent grant recipient
Salam is a 54-year old divorced breast cancer patient, lives in a small village in the Upper Galilee. She suffered domestic violence in her marriage and is raising her two children on her own. Both her children are disabled; one is a cancer survivor and became physically disabled after a serious car accident. The second daughter suffers from mental illness. Despite her hardships, Salam remains optimistic. A Lemonade Fund grant is helping her stay determined to overcome the debt caused by her breast cancer treatment, and remain focused on recovery.