Hope and harmony
Hope & harmony
For couples with cancer
For couples with cancer
Kivisi is the only organization dedicated to supporting couples navigating a spouse’s cancer journey, so they walk it with hope and emerge in harmony.
Years of supporting
struggling couples
Years of supporting
struggling couples
Couples supported
by Kivisi to date
Couples supported
by Kivisi to date
The tender age bracket 80,000 people are diagnosed in the USA each year
The tender age bracket 80,000 people are diagnosed in the USA each year
A young couple.
A devastating diagnosis.
How to do this? Where to turn?
When a spouse is diagnosed with cancer r’’l, there’s so much at stake. Their lives are upended. Their dreams are dashed. Their marriage is put to the test. Add children to the equation and the impact is even greater.
Unlike when a child is ill, the couple is able to support each other, when the spouse is the patient, they cannot be a support. This leaves the healthy spouse running themselves ragged to hold it all together — until they fall apart. It’s a lonely, depleting journey.
How to do this? Where to turn?
When a spouse is diagnosed with cancer r’’l, there’s so much at stake. Their lives are upended. Their dreams are dashed. Their marriage is put to the test. Add children to the equation and the impact is even greater.
Unlike when a child is ill, the couple is able to support each other, when the spouse is the patient, they cannot be a support. This leaves the healthy spouse running themselves ragged to hold it all together — until they fall apart. It’s a lonely, depleting journey.
Fortunately, in our benevolent community:
There are organizations that cater to the children.
There are organizations that cater to the family.
There is nothing in place to meet the needs of a couple.
And there’s only so much a burdened couple – or overburdened spouse – can carry on their own.
Kivisi carries the couple.
Our mission
We believe that no couple should have to face cancer alone.
We’re determined to create a world where couples struggling with cancer get unwavering support to overcome their challenge – and embrace a future filled with love, joy and renewed hope.
Because every young
couple deserves
Hope through help
Through gentle guidance, free resources and a compassionate family – including a cancer survivor as a personal coach – we aim to alleviate the nightmare of cancer among couples facing it.
One of the major effects of cancer is for the patient and their family to reacclimate to normal life after their ‘hiatus’. Patients often suffer clinical depression, emotionally and physically shattered and unsure how to move forward or start over. The more handholding and guidance we offer during their crisis, preparing them for the journey ahead and walking with them as they embark on it, the more long term effects we avert later – which is why each of our services is so critical.
Retreats & Shabbatons
Post-chemo Support
Social
Events
Social Events
Social Events
Employment
Couple Vacations
Employment
Couple Vacations
Hotline
Family Therapy
Case Management
When you see a newly married young man or woman at the full fruit of their youth – and they should be beautiful but instead they are pale and have no eyebrows or peyos because they’re in chemotherapy – you see a living nightmare. That an organization has been able to turn off that nightmare, giving them the respite they need to get through it to the point where they will be a beautiful, handsome and happy young couple again, I can’t think of too many mitzvos as great and satisfying. Kivisi really gets what their clients need and by supporting this special cause, you become a partner in their holy work.
Kivisi is something that’s not out there. There are multiple organizations catering to families, but no one else is doing this for couples. Some of these couples were struck by illness before they even managed to take a honeymoon — and haven't had a day of menucha. Kivisi gives them time away from their problems – a honeymoon, if you will – and the strength to go on with what they’re currently dealing with on a daily basis. There’s nothing that will not be done for the patient or spouse to make them feel special. It’s selflessness. Pure selflessness.
Mr Berkowitz is extremely passionate about what he does, treating every person like family. He focuses on those who are often forgotten; the couple. He really cares and is always thinking about how he could make their lives easier and what different needs he could fill. Kivisi is not an organization with data, but one with heart.
When you see a newly married young man or woman at the full fruit of their youth – and they should be beautiful but instead they are pale and have no eyebrows or peyos because they’re in chemotherapy – you see a living nightmare. That an organization has been able to turn off that nightmare, giving them the respite they need to get through it to the point where they will be a beautiful, handsome and happy young couple again, I can’t think of too many mitzvos as great and satisfying. Kivisi really gets what their clients need and by supporting this special cause, you become a partner in their holy work.
Kivisi is something that’s not out there. There are multiple organizations catering to families, but no one else is doing this for couples. Some of these couples were struck by illness before they even managed to take a honeymoon — and haven't had a day of menucha. Kivisi gives them time away from their problems – a honeymoon, if you will – and the strength to go on with what they’re currently dealing with on a daily basis. There’s nothing that will not be done for the patient or spouse to make them feel special. It’s selflessness. Pure selflessness.
Mr Berkowitz is extremely passionate about what he does, treating every person like family. He focuses on those who are often forgotten; the couple. He really cares and is always thinking about how he could make their lives easier and what different needs he could fill. Kivisi is not an organization with data, but one with heart.
