Israel-Gaza War Fundraiser for Disability Families

Project Report: Supporting Families of Children with Disabilities During Ongoing Conflict

In recent months, the reality on the ground in Israel has undergone a dramatic shift. What began as a project focused on families affected by the Israel-Gaza war has expanded in response to escalating regional threats. Recently, families of children with disabilities across Israel have endured relentless missile attacks from Iran and Hezbollah, prolonged periods confined to their homes and shelters, and the collapse of essential daily frameworks.

For these families, the impact is immediate and severe. Therapy stops. Structure disappears. Hard-won developmental progress begins to fade. Children experience heightened anxiety, dysregulation, and regression. Parents are left alone, overwhelmed, and under immense pressure.

In response, Chimes Israel acted immediately to meet urgent and evolving needs.

We delivered emergency therapeutic activity kits directly to families, providing children with essential tools to stay engaged, regulated, and connected to their developmental goals even while confined at home.

We distributed family relief baskets with food, diapers, and basic necessities to ease the growing financial and emotional strain.

We provided care baskets to isolated individuals, including staff and families without support systems, ensuring they were not left alone during this crisis.

We continued therapy remotely wherever possible, maintaining critical connections between children and their professional teams.

And most importantly, we mobilized our teams to conduct in-home visits during the crisis, reaching families who could not access any external support.

Now, as a temporary ceasefire allows families to emerge from weeks of confinement, a new and urgent phase of this work has begun.

After nearly six weeks without routine, structure, or consistent therapy, many children are struggling to regain stability. Families are exhausted. Tension remains high. Without intervention, the risk of long-term developmental regression and family breakdown is significant.

To address this, we are intensifying our Families in Growth program. Through this initiative, our multidisciplinary professionals go into the homes of preschool children with disabilities. They work with parents to rebuild daily routines, restore therapeutic practices, reduce tension within the home, and help children regain emotional and developmental stability.

This is not theoretical support. It is hands-on, practical guidance delivered in the environment where it matters most.

Our teams model how to manage transitions, support communication, handle emotional outbursts, and create predictable, calming routines. They help parents regain confidence and restore a sense of control in an extremely fragile situation.

This work is critical right now. It is the difference between recovery and lasting harm.

We are currently working to reach our most at-risk families first, but the need is far greater than our current capacity.

We are in desperate need of funding to continue and expand this emergency response.

Your support will allow us to send more professionals into more homes, stabilize more families, and ensure that children with disabilities do not lose the progress they have fought so hard to achieve.

In times like these, the most vulnerable cannot recover alone.

Thank you for standing with them.