In a warm and caring gesture, Leo Baeck High School students donated handmade, knitted caps to patients at the Joseph Fishman Oncology Center and the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus.
Leo Baeck Twelfth graders: Yael Pisachov, Natalie Sidelsky, Victoria Goliev with their teacher and project creator: Yaela Astrogno
Photography: Rambam HCC
Every year teachers, students, and other school community members, at Leo Baeck High School in Haifa, Israel, form a knitting group where they learn the craft and employ their newfound skills. When their knitted creations are finished, they distribute them to local organizations.
For the fourth year in a row, a delegation of students from Leo Baeck High School visited patients at the Joseph Fishman Oncology Center and the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam HCC). These students had one goal: to cheer up the patients.
Leo Baeck students distributed 100 hand-knitted woolen caps with a short dedication written in Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian attached to the cap - "This cap is given to you with love. It is a bond between generations and exemplifies the way of life and values we cherish: working with our hands, creation, recycling, inclusion, communication, collaboration, giving, and joy."
This Leo Baeck High School initiative won first place in a district competition of the international educational program, 'Creating Change,' which encourages students to be caring and involved citizens.
Patients in the Joseph Fishman Oncology Center and the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Institute at Rambam HCC were grateful for the visit and the warm, generous gifts.