Stories
UPDATE – TAXI RIDES FOR CANCER PATIENTS DURING CORONA OUTBREAK
The Lemonade Fund has launched an urgent appeal to help patients take private taxis, so that they will not miss their treatments during this difficult time. (For the average breast cancer patient: Radiation – 25 sessions. Chemotherapy – 12-24 sessions.) Cancer...
URGENT APPEAL FOR CANCER PATIENTS DURING CORONA OUTBREAK
IMMEDIATE APPEAL FROM THE ISRAEL LEMONADE FUND: The Coronavirus has created new and potentially expensive challenges for patients travelling to their chemotherapy/radiation treatments. They are immunocompromised, and they are being warned not to take public buses and...
Profiles in Courage – February 2020 – A Hard But Good Day at the Lemonade Fund
A good day at the Lemonade Fund is when you read the worst stories...so sad they make you weep...and then you jump in and help. What's better than that? R., is a 45 year old divorced mother of 3 children, ages 23, 13 and 10, diagnosed recently with Stage 4 breast...
Profiles in Courage – January 2020
G., 62, divorced, was a proudly self-supporting senior citizen until she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had worked as a bookkeeper and then transitioned to eldercare. Lymphedema, a side effect of surgery to remove malignant lymph glands, has caused limited...
The Last Lemonade Fund Grant of 2019
E. is a middle-aged divorcee with two adult children; a son who is schizophrenic and daughter who works full-time and has young children. Over the years E. supported herself and her children with no help from her ex-husband or family, by working as a scientist. She...
Profiles in Courage – November 2019
For almost 9 years the Lemonade Fund has been giving emergency financial grants to the neediest Israeli breast cancer patients. We are a small but efficient charity with almost 100% of the money you donate going straight to these patients. We have tripled the amount...
Profiles in Courage – October 2019 Lemonade Fund Grants
M., 33, has 2 young children, ages 3 and 5, and a new diagnosis of breast cancer. Hers is a good example of how a serious illness can propel a middle class family into financial crisis. Both she and her spouse had good jobs and were able to make payments on their...
Profiles in Courage – Lemonade Fund Grants September 2019
Two recent grants: A. is an elderly holocaust survivor, a widow, who lost a daughter recently, is undergoing treatment for breast cancer in a hospital that is quite a distance from her home. She lives in public housing on a small pension (NIS 3200/month.) She has one...
9 Years on 9 Av, and Another Lesson in Sensitivity…
Nine years ago, on the fast of Tisha B'Av, 5770, on the saddest day of the Jewish year, I received news that paralleled the mood of the day. Out of the blue, I was newly diagnosed with breast cancer. My personal situation mirrored the historic catastrophes that...
What Breast Centers are Saying to us…
(עברית אחרי) "WOW! How wonderful, how emotional! Thank you so very much! These grants literally save these women..." From a Social Worker in response to grant awards for her patients. !וואו! איזה יופי! מאוד מרגש" ".תודה רבה רבה, זה פשוט מציל את הנשים האלה. מעובדת...