St. Jude India ChildCare Centres is a “home-away-from-home” for needy families with children under treatment for cancer. St. Judes’ mission is to provide clean, safe, and free-of-cost accommodation to children (and their accompanying parents) who are undergoing treatment for chronic diseases like cancer in Mumbai and other cities and facilitate their recovery.
The beneficiaries are young cancer afflicted children from lower-income communities and middle-income communities coming from remote villages and towns. Children of poor farmers, unskilled laborers, daily wagers with meager earnings form a major part of the beneficiaries.
Post-COVID -19 the situation has been challenging for one and all and St. Jude is no exemption to this. All protocols have been scaled up as per treating hospital advisories and in doing so additional costs that are incurred were not provisioned in budgeting. The donations from valuable donors will be used to fund the escalated costs in these challenging times.
I count upon generous souls who have enabled a terrific smile, a bright future for the children in the past. Such meaningful transformation allows us to come together and exercise our hearts and feelings towards this beautiful project.
Thank you in advance for helping me work towards changing the lives of children, one smile at a time.

I am Vaishnavi Balgi have completed my 10th grade from GOKULDHAM HIGH SCHOOL AND JR. COLLEGE -ICSE BOARD at Goregaon. I have been an avid runner for causes close to my heart in the past with active support from my school and teachers.
My mother Vibha Balgi working with St.Jude has always motivated me to work toward the upliftment of needy sections of society . The work operational staff at St. Jude did during this Challenging COVID-19 times is really wonderful.
I seek to work my small bit for St.Jude Children and create awareness about childhood cancer.