Let's rally around our beloved friend & teacher Rita!

Let's rally around our beloved friend & teacher Rita!

From Sasha Goldsmith

Let's all rally around Miss Rita who has taught our children at Jacobson Sinai Academy for 18 years. She has helped our children for so many years. Now, it's our turn to help her through this very difficult time.

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Update #4

almost 8 years ago

Thank you to each and everyone of you who have given Rita support. . Below is something written directly by Rita.

Dear All:

How can I thank so many people for their support at this so very difficult time of my life?
My heart is filled with love because of you, your texts, comments, phone calls and generous donations.
Each one of your gestures makes me want to fight "this battle" even harder.
One of my parents said to me: "Keep fighting, you have a village behind you". I do believe and feel your support and I will win this battle.
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING!!
From the bottom of my heart,

Rita Bergart (Rozenman)

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If you're looking at this page, then I probably don't need to tell you about the amazing woman, this page is in support of....but I'm going to say a few words anyway. Rita is a mother, a friend, a colleague, and to many of us she is Miss Rita, a teacher who has taught our children for over 18 years at Jacobson Sinai Academy in the early childhood center. Rita Rozenman is one of the few people gifted with the innate ability to create joy in each and every child she ever meets. When she enters your life, you are forever inspired by her genuine kindness and love for all the kids that she has taught. It is only fitting, that Rita chose a career where she was able to touch children's lives each and every day. I can speak to this personally, as she my son's teacher during the 2013-2014 school year.

Unfortunately, Rita had to leave her teaching job in November,  because she was not feeling well, without knowing what was going on inside of her body.  On February 18th she was rushed to Aventura hospital with massive pain, only to discover she has a huge mass on her ovaries and had to find out that she had Ovarian cancer.

Moreover, as if that wasn't bad news already. Faced with cancer and losing her health insurance, she had to lay in a hospital bed for two days only to find out that this hospital didn't take her new Obama care insurance. She finally got up and got dressed and was taken to a different hospital that agreed to perform surgery on her.

Rita is now facing weeks of intense chemotherapy, and this very serious illness has placed a huge financial burden on her. She has given so much to our children, that we are asking for contributions to provide for the intense medical treatments that she will be undergoing in the next few months. We want to help her focus on getting better, free from stress and anxiety on how to pay for these bills.

She has not asked for any help, but we want to help her, after all that she has done for our children and for us.

Donations of any size are accepted with immense gratitude.

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Sasha Goldsmith posted a new update:
almost 8 years ago

Update #4

Thank you to each and everyone of you who have given Rita support. . Below is something written directly by Rita.

Dear All:

How can I thank so many people for their support at this so very difficult time of my life?
My heart is filled with love because of you, your texts, comments, phone calls and generous donations.
Each one of your gestures makes me want to fight "this battle" even harder.
One of my parents said to me: "Keep fighting, you have a village behind you". I do believe and feel your support and I will win this battle.
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING!!
From the bottom of my heart,

Rita Bergart (Rozenman)

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Sasha Goldsmith posted a new update:
about 8 years ago

Update #3

To all of Rita's supporters:

I wanted to thank each and everyone of you one more time for taking time out to donate, support, and write these amazing comments for Rita. Thanks to all of you, Rita can now focus on her chemotherapy treatments and not worry about paying her bills. Moreover,, I urge each and everyone of you to please share this page with as many people as you could so Rita can continue to focus on getting better and getting back to work, while we continue to support her and help her through this very hard time.

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Sasha Goldsmith posted a new update:
about 8 years ago

Update #2

To all of Rita's supporters:

This fundraiser is about 5 days old and we are almost at 7k. Once again, thank you to each and everyone of you. Rita is going to be going through chemotherapy and has a long road ahead of her. She has said that so much anxiety has been lifted with everyone's help. Please share this page on facebook and twitter so that we can get Rita the 10K that she needs. Once again, thank you for everyones support.

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Sasha Goldsmith posted a new update:
about 8 years ago

Update #1

Rita wanted everyone to know that she is in a state of shock at the overwhelming response from everyone. We hit half of our goal in one day!!! She said that so much financial stress has been lifted in less than a day, and is absolutely speechless at the support and love coming from each and everyone of you.

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