Butterfly Cancer care

Butterfly Cancer Care Foundation

We believe that every child deserves love and attention in the best way possible. Cancer is a reality and can destroy young lives to a large extent mentally and physically. Personifying God’s gifts as Butterflies our Foundation has expert medical teams, social workers, and financial assistance from global sources to help treat and make young children cancer free in India. Be part of our mission and we can better lives together.

Butterfly Cancer Care Foundation is a registered charitable organization (Reg. No: EKM/TC/800/2013, Kerala state), focusing predominantly on pediatric cancer care. In order to help children and parents affected by cancer either directly or indirectly (through family members) we have multiple programs that include the process of diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.

We strive to aid low-middle income families and help them with all-round holistic support to fight cancer by providing emotional and mental health counseling, clinical care guidance, financial support for diagnosis & treatment, educational scholarships for children, free/discounted cancer-medicines, self-reliance and empowerment of women suffering due to cancer in the family.

Our Methods

Need Identification

Identify eligible candidates for support Network with expert oncologists,cancer hospitals, and support groups in India to ensure the best possible treatment for children from poor families
Education Support

Establish educational fellowships and career guidance for students from cancer-affected families and cancer survivors
Women care

Promote self-sufficiency and sustainability for women from cancer-affected families
Mental Support

Providing psychological support and assistance to cancer survivors and their families
Medical Support

Supply of chemo drugs for cancer patients at highly subsidized rates through our ‘Prarthana Onco-Pharmacy’

How we work

Paving the way to normal life is often a dream for cancer-affected children or adults. We are committed to improving the overall quality of life of cancer or critical illness patients and their families.
Through experiencing the substantial challenges in providing quality care for pediatric cancer patients from economically backward families, we recognized that illness-related suffering has many aspects beyond the actual sickness of patients.
This will include, economic burden, emotional and psychological setbacks, lack of awareness, access to expertise, mobility, discontinuity of education, loss of job, social isolation, etc.
Therefore, keeping a holistic approach to provide overall support, butterfly devised different programs to address each of these specific challenges

Our Prestigious Initiatives

Butterfly Cancer Care Program
(Financial/Clinical support for treatment)

We have designed to provide the best clinical advice, treatment plan, and financial support. We connect the needy with an expert team of oncologists for optimizing the treatment plan while sponsors are identified for financial support. As cancer treatment for children spans over the years, our philosophy is to continue the support over months based on their needs and make sure that the treatment is completed.

Butterfly Educational Scholarships
(Support for education)

When the kids or parents are affected with cancer, the young kids in the family will be devastated by both emotional trauma and financial burden. This will have a substantial adverse impact on their studies. To address this challenge, we provide educational Scholarships and mentorship to kids hailing from cancer–affected, financially backward families We also provide long-term educational rehabilitation support for young patients who completed treatment.

Yuvathi
(Empowerment of women)

Our team has always felt the need to support the women in our society. Yuvathi programs have been devised to empower lone mothers and needy women from cancer-afflicted families who lost their husbands/parents. We provide affected ladies with monthly living support, skill development training, and moral support to start new avenues of livelihood or self-employment, and thus take care of the family.

Prarthana Cancer and Critical Care Medicines
(Subsidized medicine)

High cost of cancer medicines is one of the major challenges faced by patients. When the treatment is prolonged for years, the high cost of medicines will ruin the fundamentals of family economics. To address this challenge, in collaboration with Confident Builders, Kerala, we established Prarthana Cancer and Critical Care Medicine Pharmacy, to provide high-quality medicines for all patients at highly subsidized rates We also give 100% free medicines to families who are at the below-poverty line.

Blue Butterflies
(Treatment preparedness support)

Blue Butterflies is a venture of Butterfly Cancer Care Foundation in collaboration with Muthoot Fincorp, as a part of their CSR initiative impacting lives. The objective of this program is to focus on patients from Rural areas. Blue Butterflies make life better by providing quality “Treatment Preparedness Support” to young cancer patients from financially poor families

Manas
(Psycho-social support)

Over the years, of research we have understood that both the mind and body need care when an ailment strikes us. This is how Manas was born. The Manas program provides support to patients and family members through counseling and clinical support programs, that enhance the quality of life and help people to deal with mental trauma associated with cancer and other critical illnesses.

Butterfly News Letter

Research and new lifestyles can bring on an impact on our lives. This is what we like to share with our family. In order to provide the most accurate news about the latest developments in the area of cancer, we have released the Butterfly Health News. We also aim to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and expertise between scientists, clinicians, researchers, health workers, and social workers.