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Enabling quality care
at home for Israel's special-needs children
The
challenges that
face a family caring for a child with serious
special-needs are never simple. Neurological disorders,
severe illness and developmental problems in childhood
change the lives of all the parties: the child, the parents,
the siblings and - in some ways - the society around them.
From experience we know that such families are rarely in a
position to stand up to these challenges without sustained,
targeted help.
 THE
MISSION
of the Malki Foundation (in Hebrew: Keren Malki)
is to empower the families of special-needs children in
Israel to choose home care. We do this in three ways: by
long-term lending of essential
home-care equipment; by granting funds to greatly
subsidize the cost of
para-medical
therapeutic care; and, via the
Zlata Hersch Memorial Therapists on Wheels Program,
by bringing therapists into the homes of special-needs
children living in Israel’s periphery communities.
Behind Keren
Malki’s work is the conviction that parents are
usually the best advocates and caregivers for a disabled
child. Their efforts deserve maximum encouragement and
support.
Now in its
thirteenth year of operation, Keren Malki was
created to serve as a
memorial
to the life of Malka Chana Roth, killed at the age of 15 in
the bombing attack on
Jerusalem’s Sbarro restaurant in August 2001, and who
adored her own special-needs sister. Malki dedicated
herself to caring for people with disabilities.
Today despite, or perhaps because of, an efficient, low-cost
structure and our dedication
to making the most out of donated funds, Keren Malki plays a
unique role in providing its special brand of tangible,
concrete support to more than a thousand families in Israel.
The number of families
we help grows steadily. But we know we have barely
scratched the surface of the need. Our ability to do what we
do is directly related to the support we receive from
friends all over the world.
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Keren Malki's Therapies at Home Program:
Click to
download the forms (in Hebrew)
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WHAT'S NEW
Updated to
21-May-13
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Keren Malki is proud to be a beneficiary of
the
Jewish Community Foundation of Southern
Arizona |
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Keren Malki is proud to be a beneficiary of the
Jewish
Federation of Sarasota-Manatee |
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 Rainbow
of Music 2013: Keren Malki's second annual
Rainbow of Music, an Enchanting Evening of Popular
Songs, Opera, Hazanut, Hasidic Favourites... took place in
the Jerusalem Theatre on Thursday evening, March 14, 2013.
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a comprehensive report with photos and video. |
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 From
our archive of advocacy articles written by Keren Malki's
insiders: The
Right to Independent Living Frimet Roth's op-ed piece in the
17th March 2009 edition of the Jerusalem Post calls for a
greater degree of support for the right of Israelis with special
needs to live within the community rather than suffer the cruel
kindness of institutionalization. "More than 600,000 Israeli
citizens, over 10 percent of the population, have disabilities.
They patiently await the arrival of full equality..."
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View a photo slide show of the
2012 annual memorial charity bazaars organized by the
Ezra youth organization in memory of Malki Roth and Michal
Raziel here |
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 Patrick
Carlyon writes a profile of Arnold Roth in the
Sunday Herald Sun, April 08, 2012: "Roth feels far from
powerless. He gives his talks. He shares his grief. And he lives
his life... "We don't expect to change the world," he says. "We
are constantly reinforced in our understanding of that. But
there are things that passionate people outraged by this
injustice can do. And that's what we do."
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