Keren Malki - The Malki Foundation

About us

Keren Malki – the Malki Foundation, registered in 2001 as a Not-for-Profit Association, empowers families of children with severe disabilities in Israel to keep the children within their family home instead of living in institutions.

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

All of our 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.

Programs:
• The Malki Foundation Therapies at Home program, including the Lilly and Alexander Enten Memorial Hydrotherapy Fund, provides therapies to children with severe disabilities in Israel who are living at home, and not in an institution. It is our firm belief that the best environment for a child’s development is in the family home. Through Therapies at Home, the Malki Foundation subsidizes the cost of the five most important non-medical therapies: Physical Therapy, Horse Therapy, Water Therapy, Speach Therapy and Occupational Therapy. Once accepted to the program, the parents work independently with the therapist in order to achieve the best outcome for their child. The family is given an annual budget, which on average amounts to 6 therapy sessions a month per child. Once a month parents mail the therapy receipts to Keren Malki and are reimbursed 85-100% of the cost of each therapy.
• The Malki Foundation’s newest program, the Zlata Hersch Memorial Therapists on Wheels Program, started in 2011, sends paramedical therapists to children who are either housebound, or live in Israel’s peripheral communities. Through the Therapists on Wheels program, the Malki Foundation provides mobile therapists who travel to where the children with special-needs live, delivering quality paramedical therapies – physical, speech and occupational therapy. The entire cost of the service, including travel, is covered by the Malki Foundation. After 6 months therapists are required to submit a progress report for each child, detailing whether there has been success in achieving the care goals that were set out in conjunction with the parents. This report is used as a base for continuing work.

Ely Cohen is the General Manager at Keren Malki – the Malki Foundation.

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