"Enclosed is a check for $1,500 in payment of the loan that was so generously extended to me by the Yad Chesed fund. I will always be grateful for how much trust and consideration were given to me and my children. I am quite certain that we would have lost our home last winter if this help was not offered. While it hasn't been easy since, we are stable enough that we can bump along. Though I ended up on 16 weeks of unemployment benefits last summer, I finally found a wonderful half-time position ... where I provide individual therapy to clients of almost any age and from diverse socioeconmic backgrounds and many different nationalities. It is truly community-based mental health service, and I am often in the position of being able to support clients who have very limited financial resources. I am always conscious of the mitzvah of passing forward the help that my children and I have been given. After five months of very serious illness, and another three months of recovery, my daughter ... is healthy and thriving. Her sisters ... are doing well too. With three healthy children, a job, and a stable home, I could not wish for anything more. Thank you again for everything, including your faith in me. I hope to send my own donation to Yad Chesed in gratitude."

"I want to thank you from the bottom of [my] heart for all the help you [have] given us to pay the pharmacy. You know I pay you back; that makes me feel like a person. I worked fifteen years two jobs but my health doesn't give me the energy to work it now. I take care of my husband and G-d has been very good to my husband over eight years with the new heart, 4 strokes, brain surgery, kidney dialysis and he is doing great walking a short distance, laughing, smiles because G-d gave him a second chance in life. Maybe some day G-d will give me a chance to help your fund. That is what I would like to do."