Many applicants to the Lemonade Fund this month. Here are two stories: M. is a French immigrant with four teenage children and a husband who became too disabled to work, after their arrival. Until her recent diagnosis with breast cancer, M. had been the sole...
Sadly, September applicants were unusually young; all born after 1975, with children ranging in ages from 5-16. L., 38, is a single Mom with three children, ages 15, 11 and 5, living near Sderot. She had been employed prior to her diagnosis, as a hairdresser, but now...
Stories of some of the remarkable women who received grants from the Lemonade Fund this month: R., a teacher and a single mother of two from Haifa, has been putting herself through law school in order to better the situation of her family. In the midst of this...
Veronica, 40, a 2012 immigrant from the Ukraine, was diagnosed with stage IIIB breast cancer soon after her arrival in Israel. She is fortunate to have a devoted 16 year old daughter who came to Israel a few years earlier as part of high school program for lone...
S., 42, is a nurse from Sderot who was diagnosed in August with invasive breast cancer. She had a mastectomy and is currently undergoing chemotherapy which will be followed by radiation treatments. She is single, lives alone (her parents have both died,) and she has...
Her youngest child committed suicide while in the army. Two other children are mentally handicapped. One of these children was adopted by a family in Jerusalem when Nina became unable to care for him. Her adult daughter helps her, but she is a widow herself, with four...
In 2012, the Israel Breast Cancer Emergency Relief Fund (IBCERF) will have given at least 28 grants, ranging from NIS 1000 - NIS 4000, to breast cancer patients in financial crisis, from all across Israel. We have given grants to patients from the Golan to Eilat, to...
Yesterday evening, David and I were driving to a doctor's appointment in Rishon Letzion, a suburb of Tel Aviv. I wasn't anxious about the appointment, nor was I nervous about venturing out of our relatively sheltered northern community. Life in the center of Israel...
IBCERF Grant made this morning, September 13, 2012, to G.: G., 31, was smuggled into Israel, by way of Egypt, from the Ukraine. Like so many other young women, she was promised work in Israel, only to discover, too late, that the 'work' was forced prostitution. After...
Shalom, I want to thank you with all my heart for the help that you gave me (1500NIS grant.) The grant helped me to pay for a breast prosthesis, a special post-mastectomy bra, as well as for transportation to treatments and visits to the two hospitals where I am being...