Where a child lives shouldn't decide whether they survive cancer.

Most childhood cancers can be cured when they’re found early. We connect families outside the big cities with children’s cancer specialists, help pay for treatment, and teach communities the warning signs.

Parent of a child with cancer?

Call our free helpline, +91 99690 28223

Gajju walks with every child

Registered public trust

Reg. No. E-1475

80G tax benefit

Receipt by email in 48 hours

Paid to hospitals directly

Never cash to families

Founded by a children's cancer surgeon

Dr. Monica Bhagat

The road from a village to a cure

Most children in India who get cancer live far from a cancer hospital. This is how we walk the whole road with their family.

A mother notices something isn't right
A lump that won't go away, a white glow in the eye, a fever that keeps coming back. Our awareness programmes teach parents, teachers and village health workers what to look for.
Learn the warning signs
One call to our helpline
The helpline is free and we speak Marathi, Hindi and English. We find a children's cancer specialist, help book the first visit, and get the family's local doctor expert advice through EkatraSetu.
Get help for a child
The treatment gets paid for
Sponsors fund medicines, chemotherapy cycles and surgery. We pay the hospital or pharmacy directly, and every sponsor gets an 80G receipt and updates as the child gets better.
Sponsor a child
A bed and a warm meal near the hospital
Treatment can mean months away from home. We help families find a room close to the hospital and send monthly food kits, because children who eat well cope better with treatment.
Give a month of nutrition
Back home, back to school
Check-ups go on for years, and so do we. Survivors and parents join Haathon Ki Umeed, making candles and gifts that help pay for the next child's treatment.
Products made with hope

The cure exists. Reaching it in time is the hard part.

Childhood cancer is not one disease of the rich or the poor. What changes the outcome is how early a child is diagnosed and whether the family can keep treatment going.

More than 8 in 10children with cancer are cured in high-income countries.

Fewer than 3 in 10are cured in many low- and middle-income countries.

Source: World Health Organization, Childhood cancer fact sheet

Sponsor a child's treatment

Each child has a verified profile showing what they need now: medicines, a chemotherapy cycle, nutrition or a place to stay near the hospital. You choose, and we send you updates as they get better.

Meher, 3 Urgent

Retinoblastoma (eye). Chemotherapy cycle 4 of 6.

₹58,500 raisedof ₹1,40,000

Sponsor

Saanvi, 2 Urgent

Neuroblastoma. Diagnosed, starting treatment.

₹35,000 raisedof ₹1,50,000

Sponsor

Aarav, 6 On treatment

Wilms tumour (kidney). Chemotherapy, week 9 of 24.

₹1,12,000 raisedof ₹1,80,000

Sponsor

Six ways we reach children

From the village health camp to the specialist’s desk, each project fixes one place where children get lost.

Haathon Ki Umeed

Parents and survivors make candles, diyas and gifts.

EkatraSetu

Doctors in smaller towns get help from an expert panel: diagnosis, treatment plans and setting up a department..

Kids SOS 360

Our free app for parents.

Health camps

Free check-ups in towns and villages across Raigad and Navi Mumbai, with referrals when something needs a closer look..

Awareness programmes

We teach parents, teachers and frontline health workers the early warning signs of childhood cancer..

Healthcare education

Monthly expert webinars and courses for doctors, nurses and counsellors who look after children with cancer..

Started by a doctor who saw children arrive too late

Dr. Monica Bhagat is a paediatric onco-surgeon. She started the trust after seeing too many children reach her from small towns when their cancer had already spread.

Today a small team of doctors, coordinators and volunteers in Navi Mumbai runs the helpline, the camps and the network of 480+ doctors across 22 states. Our accounts are audited every year and the reports are public.

In their words

We live three hours from Mumbai. The helpline found us a paediatric oncologist the same week and an NGO paid for our stay near the hospital. Aarav is on week nine now.

Aarav's motherAlibag, Raigad

Before EkatraSetu I referred every suspicious mass to Mumbai and lost track of the child. Now I review the scans with a senior panel and keep the family close to home for follow-up.

District hospital paediatricianEkatraSetu member, Ratnagiri

I came to help at one health camp and stayed for two years. You see a child referred in March and ringing the bell in December. Nothing else feels like that.

Volunteer, health campsNavi Mumbai