Preparing Girls with Disabilities for Life’s Challenges through Self-Advocacy & Empowerment
In August, we wrapped up our first ever Self-Advocacy & Empowerment workshop for girls in our afterschool program at the Enoch school in Tel Aviv. We designed the pilot interactive workshop, funded by the L’Oréal Foundation for Women, to give the girls the necessary tools to understand harmful, abusive, violent or exploitative situations and relationships. […]
The Power of a Smile: The Enormous Difference a Volunteer Can Make
With her big smile and bouncy personality, Katya came to us from Argentina, through the Israeli Volunteer Association. She wanted to volunteer at a school, but came to Chimes’ Hadas Early Childhood Rehabilitative Day Care Center in Holon for a tour and fell in love the preschool children. Katya plays with the children, and assists […]
Little Aviv Makes Critical Progress Toward His Potential
At 12 months, Aviv Milstein was a typical Israeli toddler from Hod Hasharon, until he was not. He stopped speaking the words he had already been saying, started being afraid of everything and everybody, and began to eat very little. Soon after, doctors diagnosed him with autism. His mother, Rotem, then began a new routine […]
Corporate Volunteers Bring in the Sunshine on Good Deeds Day and Purim
They say that those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. We know something is working when volunteers choose to come back and visit us! For both the Purim holiday and International Good Deeds Day, many groups of corporate volunteers came to cheer, help and, above all, do good. […]
Chimes Shaked’s Multidisciplinary “Eating Team” Leads the Way in Treating Early Childhood Eating Disorders
Many infants and young children have eating disorders where they have chronic difficulties with food and therefore lack an appropriate and adequate diet. Children can have difficulty swallowing. There are also environmental or psychosocial responses to food, such as in Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (AFRID), where children show a lack of interest or a sensory aversion […]
A Second Class Graduates Chimes Israel-Bar-Ilan University Academic-Vocational College
Congratulations to the second graduating class of the Chimes Israel-Bar-Ilan University Academic-Vocational College! The innovative program breaks new ground by giving an equal and real opportunity to integrate people with disabilities into the world of employment through education. This year, 24 students (two and a half times the number of students in the first class) […]
12-Year-Old Meir’s Wish Comes True
This year, on Good Deeds Day, 12-year-old Meir Mazuz, who attends “Chimes Amal” afterschool program in Holon, had his biggest dream fulfilled. Meir was not only able to meet his idol, singer and songwriter Eden Hasson, he got to sing with him at the crooner’s recording studio in Tel Aviv. Meir loves singing, and one of the things that […]
An Empowering and Inspiring Leadership Meeting
In February, Chimes Israel’s entire management team gathered for its annual year-end meeting (which also entails learning and planning for 2024). This organizational event brings together all our managers, who themselves represent Israel’s diversity. They are members of both the Arab and Jewish communities. They come from Ashkelon in the south and Taybeh north of […]
The City of Ashkelon Inaugurates the New Chimes Tamar Adult Nursing Day Center Building
In a large and moving ceremony, we inaugurated the new Chimes Tamar Adult Nursing Day Center building in Ashkelon. At the modern and spacious center, people with moderate to severe intellectual and developmental receive individualized paramedical, occupational and social services. After years of anticipation and planning, the City of Ashkelon was able to construct the state-of-the-art, accessible […]
Running for Noam and his Friends
Rare Diseases day takes place worldwide to raise awareness among policymakers and the public about rare diseases, the people they affect, scientific challenges, and research for new treatments.
