St. Jude India ChildCare Centres
Kiran Gavhane currently serves as a Program Associate at St. Jude India ChildCare Centres since December 2022 and has been a Life Skill Educator with Magic Bus India Foundation since December 2019, focusing on teaching essential life skills to adolescents and promoting educational enhancement. Previously, Kiran worked as a Supervisor for the National Family Health Survey from May 2019 to December 2019, and engaged in fieldwork with Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) in early 2019. Kiran's earlier experience includes a role in the Production Department at Cummins Generator Technologies India Pvt. from September 2013 to May 2015. Kiran holds a Master of Social Work in Urban and Rural Community Development and a Bachelor of Arts in Marathi from Savitribai Phule Pune University, along with an ITI qualification in Computer Operator and Programming Assistant from Sai Baba ITI College, Shirdi Ahmednagar.
St. Jude India ChildCare Centres
Every child suffering from cancer, irrespective of economic status, deserves to get the best chance of surviving the disease and leading a full, healthy, happy life. St. Judes provides this chance through its well-established model of cost-free, holistic care during the period of the child's treatment. In major cities of India where low cost cancer treatment is available, children who need treatment for cancer and their parents come to hospitals from distant towns and villages. The hospitals do not treat them as in-patients during the long drawn out treatment and these needy families do not have a place to stay whenever the child is not admitted to hospital. Hence, St Judes provides these families with free of cost: 1) Safe & Hygienic Housing 2) Cooking facilities and Nutrition 3) Transport to and from the hospital 4) Counselling for children and parents 5) Educational and recreational activities 6) Art-based therapy, music therapy and yoga St. Jude India ChildCare Centres has a pan-India presence and currently runs 38 Centres in 9 cities. The organisation is accredited as a GiveIndia Tier 1 Organisation, is rated "VO 1A” by CRISIL (An S&P company) and is also an empanelled partner of the National CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Hub.