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Mission
The American Committee for Melabev helps provide funding for Melabev day care centers, home care programs and related services for older adults with Alzheimer’s symptoms and their families.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh
Results to date:
Melabev day care centers and a home care program enances their quality of life and sense of well being. Our professional staff offers paliative activities for those at the end of life. We offer the family caregivers models for caregivers, guidance, counseling and support. Our Institute for Studies in Aging (Geriatric Institute) offers accredited courses for professionals in the field of eldercare regardless of their place of work.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 500 older adults in our day care center and home care programs.
Indirect beneficiaries per year: Over 500 families of the older adults - the spouses, adult children and even grandchildren benefit.
Obstacles:
We have had an intensive fundraising campaign and expended great energy fighting red tape to open a new center for English speaking older adults with Alzheimer’s symptoms. Now we must fundraise to maintain it - and maintain or upgrade our other centers.
What your donation will allow us to do:
Provide services that are not covered by the payments made by families or received through the National Insurance Institute. Help us maintain the facilities, upgrade the facilities, increase capacity.
Your donation of $40 enables us to:
provides one day of care for one man or woman in a day care center
Your donation of $100 enables us to:
provide the hot lunched for one day for one center (with approximately 25 participants)
Your donation of $250 enables us to:
Pay one month’s salary for one art or music or movement therapist to work in one center for one session per week (i.e., 4 sessions in the month).
Board Members and Affiliation:
Harry Sapir, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Prof. Arnold Rosin, Founder of Melabev
Past and Current Funders:
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
UJA - Federation of New York
Clore Foundation
Rochlin Foundation
P.E.F.
Matan - Your Way to Give
Key Staff
Motti Zelikovitch, Director-General
Marsha Donshik - Director of the English speakers center
Jackie Diamond - Director of the center in Shaare Zedek
Shoshana Lichtman - Director of the center in Beit Shemesh
Leah Abramowitz, MSW, founder of Melabev - Director of the Institute for Studies in Aging
Susan H. Sachs - Public Relations Coordinator