CPAA twinning project - India
The project will put them in touch with one another and share information material in the form of brochures, leaflets, CDs, booklets, stickers in regional languages.During the past year professionals have visited Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati and Silchar and conducted awareness programmes and screening camps with local groups.
All Staff members have been with CPAA from 5-20 years. Each have been given individual responsibility to develop their department and make it financially viable with little or no support from a central fund.
The organisation started by sending interested organisations its existing literature and encouraged them to observe World No Tobacco Day, Breast Cancer Month, Rose Day, etc. 20 organisations have been supported in this way.
Organisation
Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) is a registered charitable non-governmental organisation (NGO) working towards the Total Management of Cancer as a disease, which includes:
- Spreading awareness on the dangers inherent in accepted social practices such as chewing of tobacco, early marriage, multiple pregnancies, etc, which are responsible for approximately 70% of cancers in India.
- Initiating steps for the early detection of cancer since treatment at this stage leads to a cure in a majority of cases.
To provide complete assistance to cancer patients beyond that given by the medical profession, that is, taking a holistic approach, not attacking the malignancy in isolation.
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