Girish Nair

Access Life Assistance Foundation

Access Life is a Section 8 non-profit founded in 2014 in Chembur, Mumbai, that gives underprivileged children undergoing cancer treatment and their families free accommodation, nutrition, hospital transport, counselling and non-formal education. Families from remote towns often spend 5-24 months in the city for treatment; Access Life's centres spare them footpaths and abandoned treatment, replicating its home-like model across Mumbai, Pune, Manipal, Chandigarh, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Madurai, Silchar and Noida.

Access Life Assistance Foundation reports the following, on its own site:

• 14 centres across 10 cities including Mumbai, Pune, Manipal, Chandigarh and Silchar
• Supporting 228 families at a time across all centres