Enabling quality home care, one family at a time

The challenges facing a family caring for a child with serious special-needs are never simple. Neurological disorders, severe illness and developmental problems in childhood change the lives of all concerned: the child, the parents, the siblings and - in some ways - the society around them. From experience we know that such families are rarely in a position to stand up to these challenges without sustained, targeted help.

THE MISSION of Keren Malki is to enable the families of special-needs children in Israel to choose home care. We are an Israel-based, non-political voluntary not-for-profit organization providing support and help without any regard for the religious or national background of the family. Keren Malki is focused on empowerment, allowing families from every segment of Israeli society to provide quality home-care for their special-needs child the way they believe it ought to be provided.

We empower those families in two ways: by long-term lending, free-of-charge, of home-care equipment; and by granting the funds needed so their child can receive the para-medical therapeutic care that benefits their child and that the families themselves select.

We start with the conviction that no one knows better than the family what's best for their child. No one can give loving care to that child better than the family. Experience and research show that home-care can be a very powerful part of helping a child with special needs.

Now in its eighth year, the Malki Foundation (Keren Malki is the official Hebrew name) was established as a unique living memorial to Malki Roth, a teenage girl who dedicated herself to caring for people with disabilities, among them her own severely disabled sister.

Today despite, or perhaps because of, an efficient, low-cost structure and our dedication to making the most out of donated funds, Keren Malki plays a unique role in providing its special brand of tangible, concrete support to more than a thousand families in Israel.

The number of families we help grows steadily. But we know we have barely scratched the surface of the need. Our ability to do what we do is directly related to the support we receive from friends all over the world. More >

Sincere congratulations to Harry Gelber OAM, GFKM. Mr. Gelber, one of the stalwarts of Keren Malki's Australian friends, was honoured by a government award in the June 2009 Queens Birthday Honours. More

Attention US friends: We're happy to announce that American Friends of Keren Malki Inc. is now approved as a public charity under S.501(c)3. Click here for more details.

The Right to Independent Living Frimet Roth's op-ed piece in the 17th March 2009 edition of the Jerusalem Post calls for a greater degree of support for the right of Israelis with special needs to live within the community rather than suffer the cruel kindness of institutionalization. "More than 600,000 Israeli citizens, over 10 percent of the population, have disabilities. They patiently await the arrival of full equality..." More

Malki's Legacy Nir Alon, a multi-talented Jerusalem creator of film and still-photography images has made a special ten-minute video, Malki's Legacy. Subtitled "The story of hate inflicted death nurturing love and giving, nurturing life", it is framed by an interview with an Israeli family (speaking Hebrew but with English captions) whose special-needs son has benefited from intensive therapies funded in part by Keren Malki. Interspersed with views of the family in conversation are delightful photos, all of them taken by Nir Alon himself, of some of the many hundreds of special-needs children helped by Keren Malki via our Right to Nurture program.

Thank you, Long Island Our deep appreciation to the leadership of the Young Israel of Woodmere, Long Island, New York , and particularly Rabbis Hershel Billet and Kalman Topp, for hosting Arnold Roth, chair of Keren Malki, as their community's scholar in residence on Feb. 27- 28. Opportunities like this one to inform people about the work of Keren Malki are essential to our work. We greatly appreciate the courtesy and kindness of the synagogue and its members.

Chigwell, we owe you a debt of gratitude The Jewish community of Chigwell and Hainault in London's north-east hosted Keren Malki chairman Arnold Roth for a special Shabbat (January 2009), including a successful and very enjoyable Supper Auction and concert. Proceeds went to benefit Keren Malki. More

Paris conference addresses the threat to human rights At an international conference in Paris to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Arnold Roth was an invited speaker: "Though it is not so fashionable to say so, I believe there is such a thing as the war against terrorism – and it is not going well. In fact, it is going very badly for everyone except the terrorists. Its victims are not only the children blown up in restaurants, and their parents, but also civil society in every country." A report on the November 2008 event, and the text of Roth's speech, is here.

Very well done,  London! Congratulations to Daniel Mann and his fabulous Keren Malki UK committee for the outstanding success of their 7th September 2008 Supper Auction in North London (see report here) to benefit Keren Malki. For details of their work, you can email Daniel Mann, Keren Malki UK's chairman, at UK@kerenmalki.org or phone Daniel on +44 (0)7950 177 9099.

The United Nations hears about Keren Malki's work  An historic and unprecedented symposium on the global victims of terror was the setting for a speech at UN headquarters by Arnold Roth on 9th September 2008. More

Capturing their moments A Jerusalem Post feature article focuses on a moving photographic tribute to Keren Malki's work by Jerusalem photographer Nir Alon. His project "opens a window into a world many people never get to see. It is a world Alon describes as the triumph of optimism and love over challenge." More

Keren Malki regrets to announce the temporary suspension of the acceptance process for new applications to its Right to Nurture Program. Support will continue to be provided to the hundreds of families already registered in the program. More

הודעה חשובה (17.02.08) ׃ התכנית של קרן מלכי בשם הזכות להעניק תומכת במאות משפחות ישראליות ומאפשרת להן לבחור בטיפול ביתי המועדף עליהן, עבור ילדיהם הסובלים ממוגבלויות חמורות. תכנית זו הינה חשובה וייחודית, אך דורשת משאבים רבים וזמן רב על מנת להפעילה באופן יעיל. עקב ריבוי הפניות ביחס למשאבי הקרן, נאלצת קרן מלכי להודיע על הפסקה זמנית בה לא תוכל לקבל פניות חדשות. קרן מלכי תמשיך ותתמוך באותן המשפחות אשר התקבלו כבר לתכנית. קרן מלכי עושה את מירב המאמצים לאפשר למשפחות המעוניינות להצטרף לזכות להעניק לעשות כן, בהקדם האפשרי. בכדי לקבל הודעה בדוא"ל כאשר קרן מלכי תפתח שוב את התכנית "הזכות להעניק" אנא הקליקו כאן.