Samyek's strength in his fight with cancer
Samyek is a young boy who suffers from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. He is from a poor family and did not have proper food to eat.
When he was brought to St. Jude India’s Child Care Centre, he was rapidly losing weight because of malnutrition and the illness. He was shy and kept to himself.
Over time at the center, Samyek began to come out of his shell. He started opening up and making friends. The educational sessions got him more involved in his studies.
The center also helped his family cope through the difficult time. His parents got deeply involved with the activities at the center. They learnt more about their son’s disease which helped them move past wrong ideas that they had about it.
The food he got at the center helped Samyek stabilize his weight and continue his treatment. He is now undergoing his second chemotherapy and his treatment so far has been free of complications.
It is important to provide children battling with cancer a good environment and a healthy lifestyle. Mental well being and physical strength is crucial to a child who is undergoing treatment.
Your contribution will help provide food for children with cancer who cannot afford a meal. You can give with confidence because every program on our platform is GIVEASSURED. Contribute now to give a child like Samyek a fighting chance at life.
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Program Description
Every year, hundreds of cancer-affected children travel to Mumbai along with their parents for treatment. With no place to stay in the course of the treatment, they usually end up staying on the streets, thus living at a risk of contracting secondary infections. Many of them even abandon therapy.
St. Jude India Child Care Centre works for the alleviation of such conditions for children undergoing cancer treatment. St. Jude India provides these families with a sanitized and secure environment where the patients and their families are provided the necessary nutritional and emotional support to endure the treatment. Through counseling, educational and recreational sessions they ensure the families are free of all myths surrounding their child's condition.
As for the patients themselves, they ensure a sense of normalcy is maintained for the children and they continue with activities they would pursue in a normal set up, like drawing or painting.
St Jude India Childcare Centres
Program Updates
23 March, 2021
Ration Support
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To provide needy children suffering from cancer who are brought to city hospitals by their parents for treatment, with free accommodation and holistic care, St. Judes Centres are set up to provide them with a clean, safe, comfortable, caring and cost free place to stay when they are not admitted as inpatients at the treating hospital. Large hospitals providing low cost high quality treatment for cancer are unable to provide inpatient facilities for the entire duration of treatment. In order to utilize hospital beds optimally patients are treated on an OPD basis as far as possible. When they are not admitted, St. Judes Centres provide for their physical needs (shelter, safety, hygiene, nutrition and transport), and their emotional needs (education, art and music therapy, yoga, counselling and a range of activities that generate a feeling of being cared for, a positive mind set, and a spirit of sharing).
Coming from economically backward sections of society these children are often malnourished to begin with, the rigors of treatment make matters worse, so the nutritional aspect of the stay period forms an important aspect of the essentials.
The support has helped 151 children and their parents during the last one year during the various visits made by them at our Jaipur Location.
5 August, 2020
"Good Nutrition is key to sustainable Health"
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"Good Nutrition is key to sustainable Health"
We are happy to tell you about recent developments at our end. We have been able to increase our footprint and outreach to more children in the reporting period. We are now having Centres in 9 cities with facilities for 475 children and their families.
Our latest two Centres at Varanasi, a facility for 16 families at any given point in time was inaugurated in the last week of February.
St. Jude India ChildCare Centres have been awarded a Crisil rating of VO 1A, the highest possible. The rating indicates the organization’s "Very Strong Delivery Capability and High Financial Proficiency".
We have been recognized among India's Top 10 NGOs to Work For.
We got recognized as Best workplace for Women - 2019 by Great Place to Work Institute.
As our go -green initiative we have installed 15 solar panels at our Cotton Green location which would help us in reducing cost of energy by 50 % and help in reducing carbon footprint on the planet.
As a skill development initiative for fathers we have undertaken a seven-week workshop module on mobile repairing at the end of which successful candidates will get certificates from NSDC.
19 November, 2019
Children receiving nutritious meals
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Children receiving nutritious meals
22 July, 2019
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Program Update
Needy families with cancer affected children are forced to stay on streets and eat unhygienic food due to lack of funds to support themselves in big cities. Most often, in desperation, they abandon treatment. We help by providing safe, hygienic accommodation and holistic support and care vital for completion of child’s treatment.
Children under treatment for cancer experience low immunity, low blood count and weight loss. They need healthy, balanced and nutritious meals to be able to withstand harsh long drawn treatment. In addition, we found out, children prefer home cooked food, made by their mothers. St. Jude provides weekly ration and nutritional supplements to families; and utensils and cooking facility for mothers to cook all 3 meals for the family, and a dining facility for families to eat together in a dedicated area.
Story from the field
Hemika is a cute 3.7 years old girl child came to Jaipur centre from Village Indiwali, Bhiwani District of Haryana state for her treatment of B Cell ALL.
When she came at the centre she took a few more days than usual to settle down at the centre, she was missing her joint family members and did not like to interact with other children, families and centre staff, but gradually she realized that this centre is not hospital, and other families and staff love her. After that she started to open up and slowly started interacting with all. Now every day she waits for the centre staff to come so that she can wish them “good morning”, and if any staff is on leave she misses them and asks about them constantly. She likes to dress up and look beautiful. She has a dream for her future, she says, she wants to work like St. Jude staff once she grows up.
Her father also is a very well behaved man. He is very supportive and understands the values and importance of the rules and disciplinary system. From the first day itself he is constantly supporting the St. Jude system and guides other family too to keep centre clean and hygienic. He actively participates in our activities and engages other fathers too. We wish her dream comes true and pray to God to give her strength for a speedy recovery.
| What is the expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19? | 480 |
| What is the number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program, Year-To-Date | 563 |
| Village/City/State where project is located | Jaipur/Rajasthan,Vellore/Tamilnadu |
| Total Budget for the project for FY18-19 | 1227600 |
| Total Expenses for the project YTD | 690000 |
23 May, 2019
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Program Update
St. Jude India ChildCare Centers is a “home-away-from-home” for needy families with children under treatment for cancer. St. Jude’s mission is to provide clean, safe and free-of-cost accommodation to children (and their accompanying parents) who are undergoing treatment for chronic diseases like cancer in Mumbai and other cities and facilitate their recovery.
To that end, St.Jude’s provides safe, secure, hygienic accommodation and holistic support and care to needy, out-station families with cancer affected children under treatment in big cities.
Children under treatment for cancer experience low immunity, low blood count and weight loss. They need healthy, balanced and nutritious meals to be able to withstand harsh long drawn treatment. In addition, we found out, children prefer home cooked food, made by their mothers. St. Jude provides weekly ration and nutritional supplements to families; and utensils and cooking facility for mothers to cook all 3 meals for the family, and a dining facility for families to eat together in a dedicated area.
Story from the field
Sumit, Ratan and his grandparents came to Jaipur from their small town in Jhunjhunu district. They came to J K Lon for treatment of their grandchild Sumit for cancer. It was a new city and a trying time. Managing a safe place to live, supporting each other and giving Sumit the best care possible was a huge responsibility.
Sumit had lost his parents in an accident when he was 2 years old and has been living with his grandparents ever since. The grandparents were very protective of Sumit and wanted the best life for their child so when Sumit was diagnosed, they were determined, gathered courage and strength to move to the city for him.
While it was a long haul to find their ground in the new city, they were introduced about St. Jude India ChildCare Centres, Jaipur at the hospital. The grandparents had a huge sigh of relief when they visited the center and could sense the care and healing that it provided. A warm bed, clean and safe space to stay with activities to nurture Sumit and the grandparents slowly turned the family healthier to go through the treatment, physically and emotionally. The nutrition support helped Sumit get healthier and the transport made it easy for the grandparents to keep up with their appointments at the hospital.
Sumit and his grandparents made friends, took each other’s help and became part of the supportive community at our centers.
As grandparents, most of us would ideally want to retire and enjoy the slower moments of life but it is heartening to see how care can move mountains! Sumit and his grandparents are inspirational.
| What is the number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program, Year-To-Date | 981 |
| Village/City/State where project is located | Jaipur/Rajasthan, Vellore/Tamilnadu |
| Total Budget for the project for FY18-19 | 1227600 |
| Total Expenses for the project YTD | 507993 |
