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Funds are being requested is to provide transportation for the elders attending the day care center.  They are totally dependant on transportation, as their functional abilities decline. The major challenge therefore is, to bring the service users to the actual service.  Without transportation, CLICK can't fulfill its' mission, since it is unable to bring the elders to the needed service.

These elders are taken to "Gil Amal Community Day Center for Disabled Aged.  They can then participate in vital services maintaining active independent living which are provided in this center such as nursing service, hairdresser and pedicure, catered hot meals, washing service for clothes, meals on wheels, social work counseling, social, cultural and educational activities. Caregivers are employed to provide basic assistance to help bath, feed and dress the elderly, so that they can participate in the range of activities provided by the professional staff and volunteers.

Activities: Handicrafts, Exercise Class, Lectures, Hebrew Class, Trips, Torah Reading, Student Group, Cross Generation Projects with Local Schools, Walking Group, Community Theater, Current Affairs, Community Garden, Marthon Walks and Computer Education

In addition to the program being funded by JChoice.org, CLICK also offers the follwoing programs:

Community social clubs - CLICK operates five community day centers for the independent elderly, in separate distinct geographic locations of the city. These centers fill a tremendous cultural, educational and social gap in the lives of its participants. Most are reached by organized transport, which prevent many elderly from feeling lonely, abandoned, depressed, displaced and basically cut off from their community. CLICK believes that the more services provided to the elderly in their own community, the more they remain an integral, essential and active part of their community.

“Neve Neeman” Community Day Center for Aged

Number of Participants: 28

Activities: Handicrafts, Exercise Class, Lectures, Hebrew Class, Trips, Torah Reading, Student Group, Cross Generation Projects with Local Schools, Walking Group, Community Theater, Current Affairs, Community Garden, Marthon Walks and Computer Education

“Netaim” Community Day Center for Aged

Number of Participants: 38

Activities: Handicrafts, Exercise Class, Lectures, English Class, Trips, Torah Reading, Student Group, Cross Generation Projects with Local Schools, Bingo, Current Affairs, Marthon Walks, Board Games and Computer Education

“Giora” Community Day Center for Aged

Number of Participants: 26

Activities: Handicrafts, Exercise Class, Lectures, Hebrew Class, Trips, Torah Reading, Student Group, Cross Generation Projects with Local Schools, Community Theater, Current Affairs, Community Garden, Marthon Walks and Computer Education

“Golan” Community Day Center for Aged

Number of Participants: 23

Activities: Handicrafts, Exercise Class, Lectures, Hebrew Class, Trips, Torah Reading, Student Group, Cross Generation Projects with Local Schools, Current Affairs, Community Garden and Marthon Walks

“Gever” Community Day Center for Aged

Number of Participants: 16

Activities: Exercise Class, Lectures, Trips, Cross Generation Projects with Local Schools and Board Games

“SAVI” Vocational Project

Number of Participants: 52

Activities: SAVI aims to create valued occupational opportunities for the elderly in a handicraft manufacturing factory that produces craft kits and gifts; thereby enhancing feelings of productivity, improved mental well-being, as well as providing the aged with a small wage to increase their financial situation. SAVI promotes the therapeutic benefits of crafting as a miracle “drug” to reduce stress, calm the mind and soul for: terror victims in rehabilitation, children in crisis intervention centers, elderly in day and residential centers, pre-school and school children, children in after school holiday programs, patients in hospitals, elderly in home based care, youth movements, intergenerational projects, special education schools & the general public. SAVI provides an inspirational handicraft learning center, as well as operating handicraft workshops run by the aged. SAVI aims to become a sustainable in-house industry based on reinvestment of profits to cover expenses of the project and fund future community philanthropic causes.

“Treatment Room”

CLICK operates an aromatic massage and reflexology center at the vocational center for the aged. The treatment is carried out by two elders who are professional massage therapists in a calm relaxing atmosphere and is open to the general public.

“Community Support Service”

Number of Participants: 250

Activities: CLICK launched a community support service for the elderly in conjunction with Eshel, The Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel, The National and Local Department of Community Services, the Local Municipality and Moked Enosh-: “The aim of the program is to enable elderly to remain in their own homes among friends and familiar surroundings as long as possible, even when they become frail, by delivering necessary services to their homes. The Supportive Community program addresses the needs of the elderly who continue to live in the community as their functional abilities decline by 1) providing a feeling of security and furnishing medical assistance when needed, 2) providing assistance in day-to-day activities as needed, and 3) encouraging and providing social contact to overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness. It employs a staff of 2- caretaker who carries out home repairs and brings medicine to the elders and a social activity coordinator. The elders meet regularly once a week to sing in a choir and hear lectures.

“Scholarships”

CLICK provides up to 10 scholarships per year to students with economic hardships in elementary and secondary school.

“Holocaust Survivors”

CLICK provides up to 50 grants per year to holocaust survivors with economic hardships.

“Sports Coordinator for the Agedd”

CLICK, the Hod Hasharon municipality, and Eshel recently opened a new initiative for promoting physical activity amongst the senior citizens in the city: a series of targeted physical activity programs that a newly appointed a municipal Sports Coordinator for the aged organizes. Some examples include: Tai Chi, exercise class that builds and strengthens bones and the French bowls – Petanc. To date approximately 10-20 elders participate in each activity, 3 times a week.

CLICK believes that the more services are provided to the elderly in their own community, the more they remain an integral, essential and active part of that community. Vital services maintaining active independent living are therefore provided in the day care center for the disabled, such as catered hot meals, counseling and social and educational activities. Caregivers are employed to bath, feed and dress the elderly, so that they can participate in a range of social and cultural activities provided by the center during the day.  Most are reached by organized transportation to and from the center, which prevents many elderly from feeling lonesome, depressed, displaced and basically cut off from their community. 

Though elated to finally be at home where family and friends could initially visit, those visits tended to diminish over time. Hanna longed for her friends at the CLICK center.  She missed the activity and company and was becoming increasingly lonely and bored.

Hanna's mental health and mood consequently deteriorated, until she received a visit from CLICK'S executive director whom organized transportation to bring Hanna, in her wheel chair, to the center on a weekly basis.

On her first visit Hanna's face suddenly started to light up. Meeting her friends again made her feel needed, appreciated and cared for. Hanna once again had something to do, something to keep herself occupied with, people with whom to talk to, as well as looking forward to her next visit.

“My house was neglected and I am happy that someone thought to help me”. The CLICK non-profit organization, Haim Sha’abi, a building contractor, and the students at the Naamat High School, renovated the house of a Holocaust survivor, a resident of Hod-Hasharon, who attends the day care center for the disabled.

Volunteers from CLICK, in participation with the Na’amat High School and Haim Sha’abi, who donated the material, decided to help one of the elderly citizens of Hod Hasharon, who attends the day center for the disabled run by CLICK, to renovate his house. They all arrived there together to paint the walls and build new kitchen shelves.  This is not the first time that CLICK volunteered to help elders remain in their local community. Hi tech volunteers, together with CLICK’S volunteers, painted the day care center for the disabled aged in the Gil Amal neighborhood.

The aged man, whose house was renovated, preferred to remain anonymous, “I thank all the people who came to help me. Not long ago my mother and sister passed away. The three of us are holocaust survivors and I remained alone in the house, without family. If I could, I would have renovated the house on my own, but I am crippled and it is difficult for me to walk. My house was neglected and I am happy that someone decided to help me”.