Skip to main content

I’m a superhero!

image Kids all think their moms can do anything, right???  Well, YM suggested this evening that I can somehow get you-all, my followers and loyal and not-so-loyal readers, to visit his fundraising page and make a pledge. 

What’s he raising funds for???

After weeks of his badgering, I finally agreed to let him participate in November’s 5-day Wheels of Love Bike Ride for Alyn Hospital in Israel.

To participate, he MUST raise $2500, and my condition was that he must pay his own airfare to Israel.  Naturally, because it will all benefit this amazing hospital and children in need, he selflessly agreed.  Ha ha ha ha. 

image Nope, because his BEST FRIEND Elijah is going, he agreed.  The hospital thing is just a bonus. 

(But nu, what a sweet and determined boy!)

When he said I should ask at my blog, I cynically tried to tell him that nobody will listen, nobody will care, nobody donates anything to anybody's blog.  (smart kid; he pointed out that DovBear regularly requests and presumably receives donations)

But now he's gone to bed and I'm posting this and I'm not saying you-all have to raise the $2500 alone, but if everybody reading this could give SOMETHING, it would sure make me look very slightly superhero-like in the eyes of a kid.

There’s more information below from his email (with mommy commentaries – mom-entaries? – in bold print), but if you want to go straight over there and make a donation (any amount!), click here.

(Link is to the Canadian site, but you can donate there from anywhere in the world as long as you don’t care about a receipt.  If you need a US tax receipt – for larger amounts – please contact me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com and I’ll get you the information you need.)


ALYN Hospital ~ Transforming Disabilities into Abilities!

Dear Friend,
I am so excited to become a part of the WHEELS OF LOVE bike ride. On November 6, 2011 [iy”h – God and Mommy willing], I will join 500 cyclists from around the world and will spend 5 days on my bike riding 300 miles. I’ve heard the other riders are great and so is the scenery [they’re even doing the off-road portion!]. But the real motivation is the amazing kids treated at ALYN Hospital. [plus his best friend is going] This is a chance for me to help improve the lives of physically disabled children treated at ALYN Hospital. [Yup, improving lives is his middle name.  Right after Meir.]
ALYN Hospital is a one-of-a-kind place. It is one of the world’s leading specialists in the active and intensive rehabilitation of physically disabled children, adolescents and young adults. Patients benefit from ALYN’s ability to transform disabilities into abilities regardless of their religious belief, nationality or ethnic background. One step into ALYN and you would understand the uniqueness of the Hospital and the bravery of its children and staff.
You know how passionate I am about children. [perhaps because he IS one!]   And you know how much I love both Israel and my bike. [true and true] This is the absolutely perfect way for me to combine all three. ALYN gets no automatic government allocations and there is a shortfall every minute of every day between the true cost of each child’s care and the amount reimbursed by health insurance. I am committed to helping diminish that shortfall. I can handle the pedaling if you can help me with the fundraising.
I know this economy presents a real challenge for all of us. And it’s a challenge each of us could easily walk away from. [or ride, on a bike!] But the kids at ALYN face worse challenges every day and they don’t have the option of walking away. So I am asking you to join me in helping these children by sponsoring me with as generous a gift as possible. Let’s make sure that the worldwide economic crisis does not become a treatment crisis for the children at ALYN. I am committed to push myself, following the lead of the heroic children of ALYN. If they can do it - so can I [and my good friend Elijah!]! But I can’t do it without you!
Please support my efforts by making a tax-deductible donation by clicking on the link below or by mailing a check to the American Friends of ALYN Hospital, 51 East 42nd Street, Suite 308 New York, NY 10017. Please be sure to put my name in the memo line of the check [or, as we say in Canada, cheque].
Thank you in advance for your generous support!
Sincere gratitude, [Sure, he came up with that phrase all by himself!]

The YBoy

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support Canadian Friends of ALYN Hospital

Comments

  1. Question - if I am from outside the US, does some of the money that I donate get lost in bank currency exchange fees?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Shoshana:
    Sorry, I don't know exactly... and maybe I'm not sure what you mean. :-)
    If you use a credit card, and your credit card company charges an exchange fee, that's gone before it even gets to Alyn.
    But if you're asking what THEY ie the tzedakah does or is charged with the money, I'm not sure. It's my understanding that these Israeli organizations set up "Canadian friends of" and "American friends of" to facilitate the receipt process and perhaps streamline the fees for transferring money internationally so they're handled more efficiently.
    Sorry I can't tell you more. :-(

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I love your comments!

Popular posts from this blog

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page.  As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You,...

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah :  the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science :  Plants, Animals, Human Body Math   Ambleside :  Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature     Science General Poems for Elemental Science .  Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful....

What do we tell our kids about Chabad and “Yechi”?

If I start by saying I really like Chabad, and adore the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, z"l, well... maybe you already know where I'm headed. Naomi Rivka has been asking lately what I think about Chabad.  She asks, in part, because she already knows how I feel.  She already knows I’m bothered, though to her, it’s mostly about “liking” and “not liking.”  I wish things were that simple. Our little neighbourhood in Israel has a significant Chabad presence, and Chabad conducts fairly significant outreach within the community.  Which sounds nice until you realize that this is a religious neighbourhood, closed on Shabbos, where some huge percentage of people are shomer mitzvos.  Sure, it’s mostly religious Zionist, and there are a range of observances, for sure, but we’re pretty much all religious here in some way or another. So at that point, this isn’t outreach but inreach .  Convincing people who are religious to be… what? A lot of Chabad’s efforts here are focused o...