http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/health/uganda-fights-stigma-and-poverty-to-take-on-breast-cancer.html?hpw&_r=0
Five years post diagnosis... what's been learned
The Lemonade Fund is an Israeli organization that gives financial assistance to needy Israeli breast cancer patients who are in active treatment, Recently, a local friend and supporter of the Lemonade Fund needed help herself... help of a different kind. She knew it...
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...
This is a position that can be done in the comfort of your own home, alone or with friends, using a screen, even Facebook! The Lemonade Fund has pages of content, on our website and Facebook page, written in simple English, that need to be translated into Hebrew. (On...
Financial Cost of Having Cancer Suleika Jaouad, age 24, has been chronicling her experience with cancer. In this column she touches on the financial cost of having cancer. Even with universal health insurance (as we have here in Israel,) the ancillary costs of a...
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...
Can we ask you to please LIKE our page, http://www.facebook.com/IBCERF? Thanks!The Israel Breast Cancer Emergency Relief Fund, IBCERF, was founded to provide short-term and immediate financial assistance to Israeli breast cancer patients during their first year of...
No time to write a lot right now, but glad to talk about something other than rockets or ceasefires. I do want to mention that I was often struck by how 'normal life' struggles to push through, no matter how harrowing the conditions. I imagine this must be true on...
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...