SAPNA UPADHAYAY LUCKNOW

CATEGORY: SOCIAL WORK

Sapna Upadhayay has been selflessly working for cancer patients specially kids and their families since 14 years now. She has been associated with ECWF, a non-government aided organisation, devoted to the cause of treatment and welfare of children suffering from cancer who come from less privileged background. Till date the foundation has provided assistance to nearly 4000 such children.

The medicines involved in the treatment of cancer are very expensive and beyond the capability of these families to afford them. Being unable to afford the high & low cost of these medicines these poor families return to their homes. Keeping these facts in mind Sapna has been instrumental in providing the children with required medicines so that all of them are able to undergo the required treatment. Another step taken by Sapna along with the organisation was to provide ration to the families of the children who are suffering from cancer, so that they do not withdraw the treatment because of lack of food amenities. The immense support that Sapna not only helped the families with required ration but also made it a point to see that they get all lost nutrition in their diet. Sapna also made it point of empowering mothers and needy women by getting them trained in designing handmade paper jewellery, envelopes, recycled cloth bags, jute bags and more.