By Dalit Boutboul | Marketing and Fundraising
Just another sleepy Wednesday afternoon at the Tel Hashomer Rehabilitation Department.
People learning how to walk, talk, write again. Making unimaginable efforts to return to their lives - or learning to get used to a new life.
Suddenly everything changes: Friends for Health volunteers burst in, weighed down with (new!) easels, dozens of colorful tubes of paints, canvases of different sizes, paintbrushes for every type of grip ... and a lot of good cheer!
The room is set up in half an hour and the patients already start wandering in. Volunteers offer advice in perspective, color, technique, and the patients usually surprise us all - volunteers and staff - with their creativity and willpower.
Our supporters have enabled us to buy more easels, to be able to offer more patients an opportunity to paint, and for a couple of hours, to forget the treatments, the pain, the medication.
We initiated this project following the last war, when our soldiers filled the department and needed our care.
We need your support to replenish the painting equipment and keep this vital project running!
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