A Holistic Lifeline for Children and Families Battling Cancer
Ensuring Timely Care When It Matters Most
Care Guru Foundation addresses cancer as a continuum of care, helping families manage both medical needs and financial burdens.
Delays can mean cancer progression and costs rising from ₹2–5 lakh to ₹12–25 lakh, pushing families into poverty or forcing treatment abandonment.
Support that looks beyond the immediate need.
Our mission is to provide holistic support across healthcare, education and social welfare, with a focus on underserved communities.
Because meaningful change isn't only about responding to a crisis. It's about creating the support systems that help individuals and communities move forward.
Care Guru Foundation’s Holistic Cancer Care Program
Our Cancer Care Program supports cancer-affected families, especially children, across medical, nutritional, educational, and socio-economic needs.
Habilitation & Rehabilitation Costs
Supporting survivors with rehabilitation, assistive care, and financial aid to regain independence beyond treatment.
Nutrition Care for Cancer Patients
Supporting children with cancer through education, school re-enrolment, learning resources, and academic counselling.
Education Continuity for Children
Supporting children with cancer through education, school re-enrolment, learning resources, and academic counselling.
Critical Cancer Treatment Support
Supporting life-saving cancer treatment with timely financial assistance.
Our Impact Philosophy
Continuity
From diagnosis to recovery and beyond, providing consistent care and support throughout the cancer journey.
Equity
No child or family is denied care due to financial constraints, ensuring access to essential treatment and support.
Dignity
Care that preserves hope, education, and livelihood, helping families move forward with dignity.
Join Us in Building a Holistic Cancer Care Ecosystem
By supporting Care Guru Foundation’s Cancer Care Program, you become part of a movement that treats cancer holistically, humanely, and sustainably.
Together, we can ensure that surviving cancer also means surviving with dignity, opportunity, and hope.
FAQ
We help raise funds online and aim to offer start-to-end support for a patient’s cancer journey, including support for chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, immunotherapy, bone marrow or stem cell transplant (where applicable), diagnostics, hospitalisation, medicines, and follow-up care. We also support indirect costs like nutrition kits, travel & accommodation, education continuity and livelihood support.
Families with children or adults diagnosed with cancer who face financial barriers at any point of a challenging cancer journey.
Care Guru Foundation helps combine all available resources — we encourage the use of insurance, Ayushman Bharat or state schemes first. Our support fills the gaps like co-payments, uncovered expenses, indirect costs, and more, ensuring comprehensive help for cancer patients.
We prefer to transfer funds directly to the hospital when possible (for medical expenses). For other household or educational needs, we may transfer to the family after stringent verification. All transfers are documented, and donors get access to regular fund utilization reports.
We fund StrengthBox kits (basic staples and protein supplements) and targeted nutrition support because adequate nutrition improves tolerance against harsh cancer treatments and outcomes. Our holistic support follows best practices used by paediatric oncology support organisations.
Post-treatment support can include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech/cognitive therapy, assistive devices, long-term medicines, and reintegration support such as school re-enrolment and tuition.
We help raise funds online for a child’s re-enrolment, school fees, books, uniforms and digital learning tools, in addition to counselling to ease reintegration into school after recovery.
Donations are routed to verified patient needs during their cancer journey, including medical bills, nutrition, accommodation, education, and livelihood. To ensure 100% transparency, we provide regular fund utilization reports so donors can see how funds were spent.
Yes, donations to cancer care fundraisers (of INR 500 or above) are eligible for tax exemption under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, post declaration of the donor’s PAN and address details before the end of the financial year in which the donation was made.
We verify medical records, doctors’ prescriptions and cancer treatment cost estimates through our Trust & Safety team, and (where needed) partner hospital confirmations before launching online fundraisers or disbursing funds.
Currently, our network spans over 300+ hospitals across India, including respected institutions like Apollo, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer, KEM, Tata Memorial and many more. These partnerships are built on trust, transparency, and a shared commitment to provide help for cancer patients in need of holistic care.
Cancer burden is large and rising — India witnesses over 14 lakh new cancer cases every year, and nearly 9.1 lakh cancer-related deaths annually. At current incidence rates, 1 in every 9 Indians is likely to develop cancer in their lifetime, turning what feels like a distant risk into a near-universal reality.
The financial burden of cancer treatment is staggering; average treatment costs range from ₹10–18 lakh, depending on the type of cancer, excluding indirect costs such as travel, nutrition, caregiving, and income loss.
Yes, multiple studies show that delays in starting cancer treatment are associated with increased mortality; even weeks to months of delay can worsen outcomes and increase treatment costs, depending on cancer type and stage.
Corporations can sponsor specific cancer fundraising campaigns, pledge matching funds, or partner for long-term livelihood & education projects. To know more details, contact [email protected] or 18008912903.
