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To overcome the challenges of Childhood Cancer in a vast country like India with scarce resources, CanKids uses the principle of YANA (You Are Not Alone) to drive Access To Care Models. The two building blocks of YANA are:

Cankids Hospital Support Units (CHSU's): Enabling the best treatment, care and support to children with cancer & their families who reach a treating cancer center

Change For Childhood Cancer State Projects (CCC Projects):  Ensuring children and families are guided to treating centers and are detected, diagnosed and commence treatment at the earliest… and receive shared care

​In addition, we also run: six Home Away From Homes - a low cost model where the children with cancer and their families can stay while they are undergoing treatment; a one of its kind Special School for Children with Cancer in Mumbai, “Canshala” – in partnership with Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and Subitha the only 10 bedded Pediatric Palliative Care Center in Delhi.

CanKids's YANA approach involves forming strategic partnerships with hospitals in India treating children with cancer. Through the partnership, Cankids provides a Support Unit (CHSU) covering 10 Program Areas & 25 Core services in that hospital. Each CHSU has a CanKids Social Support Team which is a cadre of trained people for pediatric oncology support services including social workers cum data managers, dietitians, teachers, psychologists, volunteers, patient navigators and care coordinators - parents and survivors. The team composition is customised as per the needs of the center & we also provide dedicated doctors, nurses and research Coordinators as required.

CanKids CCC Projects aim to partner with State Governments and all relevant stakeholders to ensure that children with cancer are detected and diagnosed at the earliest, appropriately referred to the right cancer centers and managed through shared care models of treatment, care and support.

We currently operate CCC Projects in the states of Delhi NCR, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, West Bengal, North Eastern states & Tamil Nadu. We have signed MOUs with the governments of Punjab & Maharashtra.

CanKids Canshala, the first of its kind in India, is based on a 'school in the hospital' concept, and was started in November 2012, serving children with cancer coming to Tata Memorial Hospital, Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and other Cancer Centers in Mumbai. Canshala is a Public Private Partnership between CanKids & he Municipal Corporation Of Mumbai.

This exciting adaptation of the ‘School in the Hospital’ concept, combines the school service in a cancer hospital and local schooling adapted to the child’s cancer treatment.

A bridge between Hospital and Home, Cankids Home Away From Home ( HAH) is designed to be a low cost model with minimum investment and running and maintenance costs. It integrates the issue and challenges of accommodation into treatment, care and support systems at adjoining cancer centers. It involves parent and community participation, empowering the parent support group to set up, manage and run the home and provide them with employment opportunities.

Our Pediatric Palliative Care Center (PPCC) Subhita is a Holistic Model to provide comprehensive Palliative and Supportive Care for Children with Cancer. Opened on June 2012 with the distinction of being India's first pediatric day care center, Subhita is a 24 hour, 10 bedded, a one-stop Multidisciplinary IPD and OPD service which provide the palliative care support right from the moment of diagnosis through the treatment and thereafter

In 14 years - 59 Cankids Hospital Support Units(CHSUs) in pediatric cancer centers across 22 cities; 7 CanKids Care Centres; 4 HAHs;1 Canshala Special school, 1 Reintegration Centre(Chirag), 1 Pediatric Palliative Care Centre; 25 Core Service Programs; 10 disease specific or treatment intervention projects; 4 regional Offices and a Headquarter in Delhi. In these 14 years, since Jan 2004, Cankids has supported over 8000 children with cancer in India for medical treatment........