https://www.facebook.com/chailifelinepage Chai Lifeline is a chesed organization founded in 1987 by Rabbi Simcha Scholar to help families with "children battling a deadly disease.
"[5] Scholar's initial guidance was from Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach,[2] and the focus was Jewish pediatric cancer patients in the NYC area.
"[9] Yeshiva University hosted the first university-based Shabbaton to give exposure and training for Chai Lifeline college-age volunteers, under a Fighting Illness With Love banner.
[13] By 2012, small scale Chai Lifeline groups had begun in UK and Belgium, with support from the New York-based main office's professionals.
Besides mini-golf, arts & crafts workshops, modified sports, color war, and talent shows there are helicopter rides and concerts.
[citation needed] The camp program is directed by Dr. Peter Steinherz[18] and an entire team of oncologists, pediatric oncology nurses, EMTs, social workers and physical therapists.
The program is directed by Dr. Robert van Amerongen[19] with a staff of pediatric specialists, nurses, EMTs, social workers and physical therapists.
Healing Hearts Bereavement Program – Annual weekend retreats and counseling where parents who lost a beloved child are comforted.
[33] ChaiLink – Webcam connections that link hospitalized or recuperating children to classrooms, teachers, and friends, and loans of laptop computers loaded with educational software.