Keren Malki

Keren Malki (the Malki Foundation) empowers families of children with severe disabilities in Israel to keep the children within their family home instead of living in institutions.

The challenges that face a family caring for a child with serious special-needs are never simple. Neurological disorders, severe illness and childhood developmental problems change the lives of all parties: the child, the parents, the siblings, even the community surrounding the family. We know that these families need sustained, targeted help to stand up to these challenges.

The Malki Foundation provides support via three unique programs:

Equipment Lending Unit – long-term loan of special equipment for mobility, accessibility and home-care
Therapies at Home – funds essential paramedical therapies including physical, occupational, horse, water and speech
Therapists on Wheels – sends paramedical therapists to children with severe disabilities who are either house bound, or live in Israel’s peripheral communities
The Malki Foundation makes a substantial difference in helping the family to care for their child with severe special needs in the natural home environment, giving their child the best chance for happiness, better health and an overall greater quality of life. If the Malki Foundation’s services were not available to those families, many of them would have no alternative but place the child in institutional care.

All of their programs aim to:

• Provide a higher quality of life for children with severe disabilities.
• Empower parents to be active decision-makers in their child’s care by picking out which therapies and equipment their child needs.
• Alleviate some of the financial and physical hardships that often lead to parents deciding to institutionalize their children.