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  • The Help We Give
    • National Outreach Program
    • Medical Project & Support Services Program
    • Pediatric Psycho-Oncology Program
    • Communication Education Public Awareness and Advocacy
    • Patient Navigation, Advocacy, and Family Engagement
    • Treatment Support Program
    • Education and Reintegration Support
    • Capacity & Skill Building
    • Quality Care, Research, and Impact
  • Give Help
    • Events
    • Create A Fundraiser
    • Corporate & Institutional Partners
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    • Our Model
    • Partners
    • Our History
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    • Team CanKids
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Milestones

2022
February 15

​April 21


​June 13

CanKids signs MoU with the State Government of Gujarat as knowledge and technical partner for Change for Childhood Cancer

CanKids signs MoU with the State Government of Madhya Pradesh as knowledge and technical partner for Change for Childhood Cancer

CanKids completes 10 years as a National Society
2019
February
CanKids signs MoU with the State Government of Maharashtra as knowledge and technical partner for Change for Childhood Cancer
2018
February

​April

​June


​September 8 and 9
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​December
CanShala, the school-at-the-hospital, opened at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospita in Mumbai, Maharashtra

​100 Nurses Project launched. Change for Childhood Cancer launched in Maharashtra as a 5-year project 

Partnership with Navya Care launched to provide online expert opinions and care plans for cancer patients; International collaboration with Yangon Children's Hospital, Myanmar

​Go Gold Warriors Fellowship launched with 10 awardees; Passport2LIfe project launched for survivorship

'Say No To Pain' campaign launched with a Charter of Demands and aim to collect 1,00,000 pledges

7 new CanKids Hospital Units opened, with the Social Support Team increasing from 80 to 112 members
2017
February

​September 15

ALL Golden Crab Project launched 

​CanKids signs MoU with the State Government of Punjab to make Change for Childhood Cancer, the first ever state-level MoU
2016
September 25
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month celebrated at the Taj Mahal with Light Up Gold, attended by 1900 childhood cancer patients, survivors, families. Pledges of support received from around the world to make cancer a national child health priority
2013
February 15
Concert by Kailash Kher to raise awareness about Access2Care for children battling cancer
2012
March 31

April 22


Expansion to 28 units

​Sukritham, our second Home Away from Home inaugurated in Trivandrum, Kerala, accommodating 14 families

Quality Care, Research, and Impact program launched 

Subhita, India's first and only Pediatric Palliative Day Care and Transition Home inaugurated with 10 beds and 24-hour free services
2011
March 31
13 new CanKids Hospital Support Units opened.

3,930 children registered under YANA
2010



September 10
New CanKids Hospital Support Units launched at King George's Medical University (Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh), Tata Medical Hospital (Mumbai, Maharashtra), and Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (Rohtak, Haryana)

First Regional Office opened in Mumbai, Maharashtra
2009
January 17

Voices for Hospices concert for Palliative Care held with AES School

Treatment Support Program launched, providing nutrition, hygiene, accommodation and blood support to 507 children with INR 82,00,000
2008
January 19


​February 15


June 6

​August 15

November 19

First Home Away from Home inaugurated in Kotla, New Delhi, donated by CanKids benefactor Shri Vishnu Surekha, accommodating 22 outstation families

7th International Childhood Cancer Day celebrated with India's First Women's Car Rally in Madhya Pradesh, raising funds for children's cancer care

National Outreach Program launched with CanKids Hospital Support Unit at Mahavir Cancer Sansthan, Patna, Bihar

National Childhood Cancer Scholarship Program launched with 6 awardees.

CanKids President Poonam Bagai receives the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award
2006
May 6
KidsCan Konnect network of teen and young adult childhood cancer survivors formed

​YANA (You Are Not Alone) Model launched under the Emotional and Psychological Program

Seed grant from American Cancer Society to begin India's first Pediatric Palliative Care Centre
2005
February 15


​April 5 and 6
​International Childhood Cancer Day observed for the first time in India, at CanKids' program in Appu Ghar, along with children fighting cancer.
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 Adopt a Child program launched