• Government of France
  
  Under the 7th Indo-French Joint Commission on Scientific and Technical Cooperation, the Government of France has given equipmental support and has also funded visits of eminent French cancer specialists to Indore and has sent our personnel for training to cancer centers in France.
  
  
• Government of Australia
  
  

  		Under AUSAID, the Commonwealth of Australia gave 3 grants to: Conduct rural cancer detection camps. Buy a well-equipped Mobile Pain Relief Van. Prepare a district based Palliative Care model .
  Ms. Jane Lake, the then First Secretary (Development), Australian High Commission, at the formal handing over ceremony of the mobile van.

  
  
• Government of Japan
  
  It was thanks to the grant from the Government of Japan that we were able to construct the building of Oral Cancer Prevention Centre.
  
  
• World Health Organisation
  
  The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) has given us 4 grants. The first was for ‘a community oral cancer control and prevention project' in Ratlam district. The findings were presented at the 16 th International Cancer Congress (UICC) in 1994. The second was to study ‘the incidence of cancer pain in the rural community of central India' . In 1996, the findings of this survey were presented on a poster at the World Congress of Psychiatry in Madrid, Spain. The third was for the conduct of a palliative care sensitization programme for government doctors from the states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in August 2002. The fourth was for a similar sensitization effort for doctors from Chattisgarh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The funding for the last 2 has come through the Ministry of Health, Government of India under the WHO Biennium Fund.
  
  
• Oxford International Centre for Palliative Care
  
  Under a grant from the Oxford International Centre for Palliative Care, which is the W.H.O. collaborating centre for palliative care, we have established a fully functional palliative care unit.
  
  
• Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation, Ottawa-Hull
  
  Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Sunil Dutt and Mrs. Nirmala Gautama, the Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation, Ottawa-Hull, donated an Eldorado cobalt therapy machine. So far, the machine has helped us offer free treatment to more than 2300 patients. Subsequently, the Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation, Ottawa-Hull, also sent us endoscopes with accessories worth Rs. 3 lakhs. These endoscopes are being used to offer subsidized endoscopies and are also taken for our rural cancer camps.
  
  
• Government of India
  
  A grant-in-aid of Rupees One crore twenty five lakh only (Rs. 1 25 00 000/-) was given by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India for the purchase of a Bhabhatron II radiotherapy cobalt unit. The Bhabhatron was designed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and is indigenously manufactured, a first for India that has resulted in huge cost savings on the purchase of cobalt units that earlier had to be imported.
  
  The Ministry of Health, Government of India, gave a grant for education and early detection of cancer activities, under its National Cancer Control Programme.
  
  
• State government of Madhya Pradesh
  
  The government of the state of Madhya Pradesh gave 10 acres of land approximately 14 kilometres from Indore city, where we have set up the Indian Institute of Head & Neck Oncology. Since the year 2000, we have been able to organize surgical camps at district level with the help of the respective district administrations.
  
  In March 2006, the state government of Madhya Pradesh recognized the Foundation under its Rajya Bimari Sahayata Nidhi (RBSN). This recognition entitles the Foundation to reimbursement from the state government when it treats state government employees, their families and patients Below the Poverty Line (BPL). 
  
  
• Industrial Development Bank of India
  
  A grant from the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) helped us construct a rehabilitation centre for cancer patients and their families.
  
  
• State Bank of India
  The State Bank of India gave us a donation of Rupees Twenty two lakh sixty two thousand (Rs. 22 62 000/-) for the purchase of a new source for the Eldorado cobalt therapy machine. This is the second donation given by them, the earlier source was also bought with their financial support.
  
  
• Bhaskar Exxoils Ltd.
  
  Bhaskar Exxoils Ltd. has donated Rupees Eight lakh seventy five thousand (Rs. 8 75 000/-) towards the purchase of equipment at our Institute of Head & Neck Oncology.
  
  
• State Bank of Indore
  
  The State Bank of Indore has gifted us a sonography machine for use at our cancer detection centre.
  
  
• Vatsala & Narayan Bhouraskar Trust
  
  The Vatsala and Narayan Bhouraskar Public Charitable Trust has given a lease free bungalow for cancer education and detection activities in Indore.
  
  
• Lions Club of Indore Mahanagar The Lions Club of Indore Mahanagar constructed a dharamshala at the Institute premises for the benefit of the patients. The dharamshala gives subsidized/free accommodation to patients and their families during the time that the patient is undergoing radiotherapy treatment at the Institute. With this, patients from outside Indore have the option of living on campus during the radiotherapy treatment, thus avoiding a daily commute of 26 km.
  
  

  The dharamshala was dedicated to the public on 25.6.2000. This project has been an example of the dedication of the Lions Club team in that it was completed in record time – construction was completed within a year of the decision to undertake the project was taken.

  
  So far more than 481 patients and their families availed of our dharamshala facilities while they were undergoing the 6 weeks of radiotherapy at our Institute, some of these were offered this facility free of charge while there was partial waiver of charges for some others.
  
  
• Mr. Kanti Parasrampuria
  
  Mr. Kanti Parasrampuria donated money for the construction of a part of the cobalt therapy centre in the memory of his son Nikunj Parasrampuria.
  
  
• Maharani Sau. Indira Bai Holkar Trust
  
  The Maharani Sau. Indira Bai Holkar Public Trust gifted a small Maruti Omni Ambulance. It has now upgraded it and given the larger Tempo Trax.
  
  
• Family of Late Mr. Shankarrao Mungre
  
  The children of Late Mr. Shankarrao Mungre have set up a fixed deposit in the name of the Foundation. The accrued interest is used for our palliative care activities. Mr. Mungre died of cancer at a time when there was no palliative care for the terminally ill. Having helplessly seen their father suffer and coming to know of the Foundation’s work in this field, the family offered to help us.
  
  
• Family of Late Mrs. Indumati Kulkarni
  
  The children of Late Mrs. Indumati Kulkarni (nee Nadkar) donated money for the annual maintenance of the cobalt machine. Late Mrs. Indumati Kulkarni was born and brought up in Dhar, which is 60 km. from Indore.
  
  
• Rotary Club Indore North (RI District 3040) and Rotary Club Seoul Poukak (Korea, RI District 3650).
  
  The Rotary Club of Indore North (RI-Dist-3040) & Rotary Club of Seoul Poukak (Korea) (RI-Dist-3650) donated an ambulance cum patient carrier under the Matching Grant Program of the Rotary Foundation Year – 2006.
  
  Rotary Club Members with the Trustees and Volunteers of the Foundation after the vehicle handing over ceremony.
  
  
• Merind Limited
  
  Merind Limited gifted medicines for free distribution.
  
  
• Seattle Laryngectomy Club
  
  The Seattle Laryngectomy Club, USA, has so far donated 11 electro-larynxes and some other gadgets for voice rehabilitation.
  

Over the years, we have also received donations for specific purposes and on specific occasions. It could be a donation for the radiotherapy treatment of one poor patient or for the purchase of furniture required at the Institute. We find that increasing number of families are opting to donate something for a cause, in memory of their loved one, rather than spend that money on a memorial service/programme.

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