Ensuring Uninterrupted Access to Oncology Treatments Soon after the war began on October 7, 2023, the Lemonade Fund immediately launched an emergency fund for wartime grants (NIS 1800 each) to ensure support for uninterrupted oncology care and to fill the gap...
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Empowering the Periphery
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Empowering the Periphery The Lemonade Fund Empowering the Periphery program provides additional funds to recipients of emergency financial relief grants for Israeli citizens with breast and other cancers who live in Israel’s...
Seasonal E-Greeting Cards
Twice a year, the Lemonade Fund invites supporters to send meaningful e-cards in honor of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) and in lieu of Mishloach Manot for Purim. The proceeds of the e-cards go directly to support emergency financial aid for Israeli breast...
Profiles in Courage – March/Passover 2021
A., 66 years old, diagnosed with advanced breast cancer after losing her job as a pre-school assistant. Husband is ill and showing signs of dementia. Couple had been managing on small pensions until the extra costs of having cancer appeared. Grant awarded to help A....
Profiles in Courage – February 2021
Grants were reveiwed and sent early this month, so recipients would get them in time for the holidays. Sample February 2021 Lemonade Fund grant: H., 42, married, 4 young children, getting chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer, awaiting surgery. Two adult siblings...
Profiles in Courage – January 2021
Starting 2021 with stories of 2 breast cancer patients who needed help, who got Lemonade Fund grants this week: R., 42 years old, married with 4 children (ages 7-15.) (Husband not working, is fully disabled.) D. was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in August, now...
Urgent: Rushing to Help Breast Cancer Patients During Holidays and Lockdown
We are seeing an unprecedented number of requests for emergency financial aid right now. We are rushing to send funds to breast cancer patients and their families, who are in crises. On top of breast cancer, for many of our applicants, Corona has caused job loss,...
Profiles in Courage – August 2020
T. is a 38 year old widow with 5 children (ages 3-13,) from a town in the Jezreel Valley. In May she discovered a lump in her breast which turned out to be malignant. T. doesn't live near family, but until now she has been able to manage financially on her widow's...
A Corona Miracle: Getting Cancer Patients to Their Treatments During Corona
Here is the sunshine that was borne out of the darkness of this pandemic. Feel good, feel proud. What can happen when we all care for each other. Based on an actual story. It’s early February, 2020 and A., a 48 years old divorced mother of two, has been diagnosed with...
FREE TAXI RIDES FOR CANCER PATIENTS DURING CORONA – STORIES
-A mother needed to visit her young son, immunocompromised and in isolation in a hospital leukemia ward. We are making it possible for this mother to see her son often even during Corona. -Lung cancer patient needed transport from Kiryat Gat to Be’er Sheva to start...