PELE
PELE - Personalized Equipment Leading to Empowerment
Celebrating 5 Years of Innovative Solutions
The PELE track of the Innovation Space at ALYN Hospital, made up of professional staff members and volunteer designers, provides case-driven, personalized, affordable solutions for children who face physical challenges to independence in their day-to-day activities. The expert staff has at its disposal a fully-equipped workshop including 3D printers, a laser-cutter, metal soldering, a carpentry area, an electronics room, and more.
The solutions developed are also accessible to children, parents and therapists world-wide via our dedicated open-source global platform on the internet.
Since its establishment in 2018, PELE has developed over 800 solutions!
PELE's Contribution to the National War Effort
Since October 7 and the ensuing war, PELE has been active in contributing to the national war effort by devising solutions for children with disabilities evacuated from their homes who are living in temporary housing, soldiers injured during the war and survivors of the Nova Musical Festival.
The PELE team is working together with general hospitals caring for many young adults who have sustained serious hand and arm injuries, from which they are unlikely to ever recover completely. PELE has been working with the patients directly, as well as with their occupational therapists, to develop solutions that will enable them to have affordable devices to help compensate for the functioning that they have lost.
PELE is also creating and adapting solutions for children who have found themselves without the adaptive equipment they left behind when they were forced to flee their homes and those who are lacking accessible accommodations while staying in various hotels and temporary housing throughout the country. These solutions aim to increase their independence and ensure that they can continue to grow and develop even in these chaotic times.
