As a result of our donors' generosity, Aitza L'Chaim has managed to help people in the following ways:

* Several thousand shekels worth of shopping vouchers and cash gifts are distributed to families each month.

* We repaired and got back into good working order the refrigerator of a Tzfat family with nine children, whose refrigerator wasn't working because it had had holes in the door and sides for over a year. We also filled the fridge with basis necessities.

* A number of telephone accounts were paid to reconnect family phones.

* Aitza L'Chaim gave a three day respite break to two mothers with large families in a hotel by the Dead Sea so that they could regain their emotional and physical strength.

* A mother with seven children had most of her diseased teeth removed, but the dentist wouldn't supply new teeth until her old account was paid. Aitza L'Chaim helped pay the dentist seven thousand shekels, (7,000 NIS = $1605 US) so that the mother had new teeth for Pesach.

* A child under one year old with a muscular disease needs therapy at the local hospital three times a week. The family was unable to afford fares to the hospital and back, so the child was not receiving his much needed therapy and his condition was deteriorating. Aitza L'Chaim found a donor who has paid fares for the mother and child to attend the hospital three times a week for the next year.

* Free counseling was given to many in need.