Archive for category: Volunteering with sick children

.On September 12, 2017, our volunteers worked with sick children at the Mayanei Hayeshua hospital in Bnei Brak

It is exciting to see a child who stayed in his room for two days, refusing to come out, respond to our volunteers. When our volunteers arrived, they cheer him up with all small gifts and games, and got through to him. He began to soften, smile and rejoice with them and then got out of bed and left his room with a mile to join the activities with the other kids.  The child’s mother was beyond herself, not finding words sufficient of thanks and praise for the volunteers who brought about this wonderful change in her son.

.The Ish Tzadik Haya Volunteers also worked with all the other kids in the Mayanei HaYeshua children’s ward, and engaged them with arts and crafts

.An pained and suffering seven-year-old girl expressed her heartfelt gratitude in writing, as you can see in the picture posted below

.We pray for the success of the treatments and for the children’s safe and sound return to their families

3.5.17

When the rest of the nation celebrated Yom Hatzmaut – Israel’s independence day all over the country, 19 Ish Tzadik Haya Volunteers made their way to two hospitals: Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikvah and Safra Hospital in Tel Hashomer. Their mission was to spend time with hospitalized sick children and delight them in fun and engaging fashions.

The volunteers spent time in the following wards:
Schneider Children’s Hospital: Surgery, Hematology, Inpatient III, Inpatient IV, Dialysis, Cardiac Unit, Children’s Ward A and Children Ward B.

Safra Hospital: Rehabilitation Department, Department A: Wards A&B, and Department B: Wards A&B

We select specific days for our volunteer activities, so we can support the sick children and ease suffering, as well as lighten the load a bit for their families, in these difficult times. This was the case during Passover and on Israel’s Independence Day.

For days prior to this initiative, Ish Tzadik Haya volunteers were involved in selecting and acquiring materials, games, creative material, that would enable them to employ, engage, and delight the children.

We would like to share with you two of many experiences that the volunteers reported:

1. “We were in a rehabilitation department, by a child who could not do the craft himself. He was transfixed on a chair and looked up from time to time without speaking. Nathaniel, one of our volunteers, took note of it, approached him, and played the guitar for a long time in an effort to lift the child’s spirits. We then gave the child arts and crafts items, a balloon, and a flag, so that he would feel like everyone else. At the end of the visit, the boy looked up, and without a word waved the hand that held the balloon and the flag, and expressed gratitude in his eyes.”
2. “When I reached room 8, I heard a young girl of about seven, crying and murmuring her refusal to go to the nurses’ room for a blood transfusion. The girl then screamed and the mother was visibly tired, exhausted from the constant struggle. I went into the room, sat by the girl, and calmed her with the gifts we had brought. I was able to persuade her to go to the nurses’ room by agreeing to accompany her along with her mother. So she and her mother and I went to the nurses’ room to do the IV.”

We wish thank wholeheartedly our volunteers who gave up their time and energy and came to volunteer on this day.

We wish to thank our volunteers from the bottom of our heart. We pray that in the merit of their actions, G-d will fulfill all their wishes for the good and satisfy all their needs, in peace and tranquility.

Praiseworthy is the people that has this; Praiseworthy is the nation that there are their sons and their daughters.

On 2.6.2017, our volunteers set out to work among sick children at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.

The volunteers spread out in the various wards in order to encourage and delight the patients. Following the wonderful feedback about the volunteers, the representative of the hospital asked to expand our volunteer program to include the adult patients as well. Our volunteers heeded the request and also spread the cheer and good will in the adult wards.

On behalf of the hospital administration and on behalf of the Ish Tzadik Haya Foundation, we would like to thank all the volunteers who participated in this wonderful program. Bless you shall be by the Almighty and may He fill all your needs with all that is good.

Blessed are we, that these wonderful people are our volunteers.

1.6.17

Things that sustain a soul … (Talmud Yerushalmi, Ktubot 32)

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the volunteers, who have given of their time and energy and have come to bring joy to suffering sick children and adults in Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.

Our volunteers dedicate their time precisely when the rest of the nation spends time with their families, on Passover, on Israel’s Independence Day, on other holiday and on Fridays. They engage and delight young patients with a variety of activities, in which much thought and preparation were invested.

Through this blessed activities we are encounter patients with severe and incurable diseases. We cannot stand idly by.

If you are interested in joining this our volunteer core, please provide your name and a telephone number.

8.10.17

On Sunday, during the first day of Chol HaMoed Sukkot, our volunteers set out to interact with patients at Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera.

Near the emergency room, a two-year-old girl who had received blood infusion was sitting on her mother’s lap, crying. The mother’s attempts to calm the crying child, were to no avail.

The Ish Tzadid Haya volunteers arrived with a host of gifts and prizes and distracted the girl, blowing bubbles into the air. The little girl was fascinated as she watched the floating bubbles, her crying came to a stop and her tears dried. The grateful mother invited the volunteers to “Come every time ..”

The volunteers then went through the other wards and delighted the sick children and their adult caretakers with balloons and small gifts for the holiday.

Our volunteers left the hospital with a sense of satisfaction, with the knowledge that they succeeded, at least somewhat in relieving the pain and suffering by infusing the atmosphere with some holiday cheer.

We are fortunate to be counted among those who affect joy.