Going along with a longtime tradition, Zichron Menachem volunteers have been decorating this ward – which is located in a major medical center in Jerusalem - for the past 12 years, for each season and every holiday of the year.

Winter, spring, summer and autumn; Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Chanukah, Tu B’Shvat and Purim; Passover, Israeli Independence Day, Jerusalem Day and Shavuot: that’s the long list of our decorating project timetable!

Faithful Zichron Menachem volunteer Shira Gutentag has taken upon herself the immense responsibility of organizing and implementing this lively and demanding project. This particular hospital ward serves children from all over Israel who are struggling to fight the serious and difficult disease of cancer.

The colorful results of this artistic project provide the hospitalized children with much joy and excitement. The children’s parents comment that the decorations in the hospital ward bring them - the parents - a lot of happiness as well.

The decorated environment inside the ward reminds both the parents and the young patients that, outside the hospital’s confines, life goes on and they have been blessed to reach the very important milestone of celebrating another holiday. With the arrival of each new holiday and season, these young cancer patients and their families have an extra-special reason to celebrate together.