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Purnota Dutta Bahl is the founder of Cuddles Foundation[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare, women & children and palliative & cancer care from Mumbai.
Cuddles Foundation
Cuddles Foundation provides nutrition support, food baskets and dietician care to underprivileged children undergoing cancer treatment. Good nutrition improves treatment outcomes and survival for these children.
Cuddles Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 20,270+ children fighting cancer supported through FoodHeals™ in 2025-26
- Works in 48+ hospitals across 17 states in India
- 81% of patients improved or maintained nutritional status despite cancer therapy
- Organisations
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- Based in
- Mumbai
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References
- [1] “The soul of Cuddles Foundation, when Purnota saw the impact of the lack of nutrition on kids with cancer firsthand during a visit to Tata Memorial Hospital, she knew she had to do something about it. She left her decade long career in corporate India to fight childhood cancer, and Cuddles Foundation was born.” — Cuddles Foundation. Source
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