When supporting a child’s fight for life becomes necessary, Hope Lifes steps in.
Hope Lifes is a nonprofit association (amuta) established in 2020, offering a wide range of services to children with cancer and their families. The amuta provides psychological, moral, and physical support to children fighting for their lives.
Hope Lifes stands out. Its diverse activities focus on the health and well-being of children and their families, providing direct and indirect assistance to children with cancer and to medical teams in most pediatric oncology wards worldwide, supporting approximately one hundred children at any given time.
Hope Lifes offers psychological and physical support to children and their families, especially those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This support is provided throughout the illness, during recovery, and before returning to everyday life. Physical treatments are administered in top-level departments, following international protocols. Psychological support not only helps children feel more positive but also shortens hospital stays and saves money for everyone involved.
Hope Lifes is an amuta dedicated to breathing life into children fighting for survival by helping them believe in their ability to overcome illness. Cancer strikes the young, the old, children, and infants. Every case is a family tragedy, but especially so when cancer strikes children, whose whole lives are ahead of them.
Although Hope Lifes is not a hospital, it supports children with cancer. Cancer can affect the rich, the poor, Black, White, religious, or secular-no matter the background, a family’s world collapses when a child is diagnosed.
Many important figures, including the President, are aware of and personally recognize Hope Lifes’ work. Their support is invaluable.
We sincerely thank you for your intention to raise crucial funds to help purchase a Flow Cytometer for bone marrow transplantation in the Cancer Immunotherapy Department at the hospital.
The department head urgently requests the purchase of this sophisticated equipment.
Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) transplantation is the only curative treatment for several oncological-hematological diseases. In recent years, the outcomes of HSC transplantation have significantly improved due to more precise and patient-tailored treatment definitions. To determine the genetic and immunological background of our patients and thus achieve better outcomes, we need to characterize human immune stem cells. A precise analysis is essential for deciphering the specific immune, hematological, or oncological disorder and for determining the appropriate treatment.
Our Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and Cancer Immunotherapy Department treats a large number of oncological patients, performing approximately 200 stem cell transplants annually. We must characterize the functionality of immune cells in these patients. This can be achieved by staining specific blood cells with antibodies against essential epitopes and markers for flow cytometer analysis. To do so, we require a flow cytometer, which is a critical tool for cell counting and characterization.
A future goal is to develop alternative treatments to transplantation.
The CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/Cas9) method is a novel technique that enables, among other things, the deletion and modification of genes within cellular DNA. We plan to use the CRISPR/Cas9 method to edit the DNA of patients’ stem cells to enhance their ability to restore immune system deficiencies while reducing the side effects associated with the transplantation process.
A flow cytometer is essential for this purpose and will also provide significant clinical and research functions.
Hospital CEO, Mr. Z. Rozenshein
I would like to express my gratitude to you and the association’s management for approving funding for a neuropsychologist position in the Pediatric Oncology Department.
Your generous contribution is extremely important to us and facilitates the employment of a neuropsychologist for the rehabilitation of children with brain cancer.
Prof. Y. Klushnik
Head of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Department
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your colleagues in the association’s management for your dedicated support and significant assistance over the years for the benefit of the children treated in the Pediatric Oncology Unit.
Your heartfelt efforts are invaluable to the patients, their parents, and the unit staff, and they extend heartfelt thanks to you from all of them.
Mr. Y. Sadeh
First and foremost, I extend my heartfelt thanks for your willingness to assist and contribute to the dear children treated in the Pediatric Oncology Unit.
We are deeply grateful for your goodwill and that of kind people like you, thanks to whom many children, nearly overwhelmed by despair, are saved, as you descend upon them like angels from heaven.
Thank you very much from the depths of our hearts.
Fighting severe illnesses is one of the most daunting journeys a child and their family can endure. It is a battle that extends far beyond physical pain, encompassing emotional distress, financial strain, and an overwhelming sense of uncertainty about the future. These challenges can leave families feeling isolated, helpless, and without direction during some of the darkest moments of their lives.
At LIFES HOPE, we understand that true healing requires more than medical care—it demands holistic support. That is why we are dedicated to providing financial assistance for critical treatments and emotional and moral support to uplift children and their loved ones. Our commitment to comprehensive support ensures families can focus on their child’s recovery, knowing they are not alone and that we are here to provide the support they need.
Our commitment to comprehensive support ensures families can focus on their child’s recovery, knowing they are not alone.
Our mission is to step in where hope seems lost, offer strength when it feels depleted, and remind these families that they are not alone. By easing their burdens, we empower them to focus on what truly matters: their child’s recovery and well-being. With the combined efforts of our team, supporters, and community, we aim to restore dignity, resilience and hope in the face of even the most challenging circumstances. Your support is crucial in helping us empower these families and make a difference in their lives.
Together, we strive to transform despair into courage and to build a future where no child faces their journey alone.