Over the past several months MiniActive has helped in the efforts fight the coronavirus. You can read about it here, here, here and here. This past week, we were fortunate to be a part of a new initiative.
Raising spirits of Arab COVID-19 patients at Hadassah
We received a call from the coronavirus unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem for help. Many of their older coronavirus patients are Arab. And as a coronavirus unit, all are in quarantine, away from their friends and family. There have been numerous drives to decorate the walls and public areas of the coronavirus unit to make in more home-like, but all of the drawings are by Jewish children. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not theirs, they don’t reflect their cultural mores, they have Jewish themes. It doesn’t ‘speak’ to them, and that misses the point of having the drawings.
So MiniActive women came to help. Children of the MiniActive women, together with their mothers, had a special – Zoom-based, of course – activity, drawing and preparing art to be put up in the coronavirus unit.
Reminding patients of home
It means so much for the patients; it meant even more for the families.
Here’s the Facebook post from the MiniActive Facebook page:
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation and to Natan for their ongoing support of MiniActive!
