David: There is Always Hope
David is a 59-year-old man who has been battling cancer for the past five years. His painful chemo treatments leave him so weak he is unable to work. His wife, Miriam, is very supportive and takes care of all the household chores, but since David's diagnosis has been unable to find a job to support their family of six.
What troubles David the most is the effect poverty has on his children. "When my 14-year-old comes home from school crying and telling me that the other children were making fun of him for being poor, I can't help but cry with him," David says with tears in his eyes. "He says that all the kids have snacks in their lunchbox, and all he has is a little sandwich with a piece of cheese. Sometimes he goes hungry the whole day."
When his children outgrew their clothing, David faced a crisis. "I didn't know what to do because the small government stipend that we live on doesn't even cover our monthly bills for medicine, rent, and electricity," David says. "So I took the money that I put aside for my medicine and bought them each a few pieces of clothing from a second hand clothing shop."
But David's body did not react well to doing without medicine. After just three days without it, he ended up in the hospital. When The Fellowship found out about his situation, we immediately intervened and through our Guardians of Israel program and purchased David the life-saving medicine his body so desperately needed.
David and his family will be forever grateful to The Fellowship's Guardians of Israel for saving his life and giving them hope when they had no one else to turn to. "When we thought we were in the lowest point possible, sitting by my husband's bedside with no money to buy him medicine, The Fellowship came through," Miriam says. "The Christians in America who fund projects in Israel show the Israeli people that, no matter how hard a situation we are facing, we will get through it together."
Donate to Guardians of Israel today to extend a lifesaving hand to needy Jews, like David, who so desperately need your help.
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