Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Unveiling the Logo

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Unveiling the Logo: "After working relentlessly for a few days, we have been able to get the logo right. There was a little back and forth on this but finally ... The logo contains three key elements ..."

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Run report - KTM 2010

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Run report - KTM 2010: "All the runners with SMCF finished the Kaveri Trail Marathon. We had four runners who had signed up on the short notice.

We have had a lot of non-runners who are willing to support the fund raising exercise in a big way. Would really like to thank all of you who have reached out. I would be sending out the details to each one of you. Please give me some time to put together a small introductory brochure for the same. I believe this would be important as most of you have volunteered to help through the corporate route. Will try and quickly turn this around. ..."

Personal Committments

I would be running the Kaveri Trail Marathon (http://www.kaveritrailmarathon.com/) this weekend. Am running this race for the Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation  (refer the last few posts). This is my second  marathon this year. The last one I ran was the Auroville Marathon in Feeb, 2010. It was a very personal run. I was running it for Mom. It was a very difficult run both physically and mentally (I guess, I was ill prepared on both fronts).

Since then I have already run 850Km for SMCF and I am making a committment of running atleast 1000Km more by Feb, 2011. 

Priyanka is making a committment of running another 500K in the same time period. Shantanu and Ankita are running their next four big runs for SMCF. If you want to support this initiative in any way, please drop in an email at smcfindia [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com or to me or just leave a comment here. I will get in touch with you.

SMCF: Execution plan and Help required

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Execution plan and Help required: "When we started the aid activities, there was an over-riding concern about ensuring the efficacy of any monetary aid we end up extending. T..."

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: What We Want to Do

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: What We Want to Do: "There have been a few questions on what we want to do and how can one get involved. I will answer the questions in two parts. This post address the first part..."

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Getting the Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation off the ...

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Getting the Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation off the ...: "...The next set of doctors were those who had come in touch with Mom. She had literally charmed them through the treatment and they were more than willing to pitch in. The fact that she had the grace to smile just before going into her final trip to the ICU was inspiring enough to all of them...."

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Starting the blog flow

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation: Starting the blog flow: "Hi Everyone, If I look back a couple of years, I had never thought I would writing a blog on this. Last year has been particularly difficult for me..."

Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation

On December 15, 2009, I lost my mother to Cancer. In her we lost a wife, mother, friend, philosopher and guide to this cruel disease.

We did not know how to react to the loss. There was a lot of anger, outrage and an overwhelming feeling of helplessness. We were completely drained by the experience and yet emotionally charged. As a family, we felt a responsibility to do something concrete against the disease.

Over the last few months, I have talked to a few people about the fact that we are planning to start a cancer foundation in my Mother's memory. Over the last few months a lot of activity is happening on that front. The foundation is called Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation. It is a registered trust now and is 80G certified now.




We are in the process of setting up the website. I have started blogging about the initiative at http://smcfindia.blogspot.com/ and the twitter Id is @smcfindia. I will also post the blogs from that blog onto my current blog for a few days. Looking forward to support from all of you.


Thanks
Prateek