Every disease comes with its set of myths and expenses attached to it sometimes ignorance and struggle break people and make recovery difficult. Having seen this closely for the since 2004 CanKids KidsCan India Hope B~LitFrom United States Team came together to support and spread joy in the life of children suffering with Cancer. An American NGO Hope B~Lit travels to donate all proceeds from the short film Got Cancer to kids with cancer with support of CanKids India. Awareness is the firsts step to recovery support in terms of emotional availability and financial stability is second to getting the correct treatment and love and acceptance are the most critical of the things to do when someone is dealing with something as critical as Cancer.
Team of Hope B~Lit CanKids at recently held Event along with Cancer Survivors They have travelled together to 3 metropolitan cities Mumbai Kolkata and Delhi to felicitate Cancer Survivors and provide the much need financial aid to family with children suffering from Cancer. They aimed to improve Survival of children with cancer Quality of Life and the Rights of the Child with Cancer and their Families. CanKids has adopted a multi-pronged strategy that includes working in partnership with hospitals like AIIMS etc. to provide holistic support to children affected with cancer. Across India CanKids KidsCan works in over 22 states 100 locationswith over 89 cancer centersin 42 citiesand treats more than 12000 new casesof childhood cancer each year. As a national level organization helping and enabling any child with cancer and the family anywhere in the country CanKids seek new CSR partnerships to reach and support more and more children and families to scale up and also be sustainable. They are convinced that working collaboratively they will continue to make significant impact on childhood cancer in India.
In 2018-19 CanKids spent about 8 crore rupees in providing direct medical support to cancer affected children and their families; in addition to this they also facilitated 17 crore rupees from various government schemes to reach cancer affected children and their families. Celebrities came out in support of the cause Shahid Mallyawho sang the songs Ik Kudi; and Darya; in Mumbai Arjun Chakraborty (Actor)in Kolkata and Ruhi Hak(Founder- Hope B~LIT) Sonal Sharma(Co-founder CanKids) Poonam Bagai(Founder CanKids) Harsh Kumar(COO CanKids) and media partners Ezilon Media Pvt Ltdwere present at the events held on 17th in Mumbai 18th in Kolkata and 21st December 2019 in New Delhi respectively. We are fighting a war against cancer - childhood cancer. Together we Can Partnerships and stakeholder engagement are vital. Earlier this year we started real work with other partners in India on the WHO Global Initiative on Childhood Cancer which targets a 60% survival in LMICs by 2030. As the year draws to a close we are delighted to initiate a new partnership with HopeB~LITfrom USA which will help us to raise much needed awareness and funds for the cause.