Two families' loss became a decade of screenings, treatment and dignity for women across Pune who cannot afford to fight cancer alone.
Where It Began
In 2013, Praful Chandawarkar lost his wife Cheeru to cancer. Around the same time, his closest friend Suraj lost his wife Priya. Both treatments came late, cost more than either family could bear, and left behind the same haunting question: what happens to the women who cannot afford to fight at all?
Rather than let that question go unanswered, the two friends turned their grief into a foundation. Live Life Love Life Charity Foundation began as a small effort to fund one woman's chemotherapy at a time — and grew into a network of screening camps, subsidised treatment, and palliative support across urban and rural Pune.
Nine years on, the mission hasn't changed: no woman should be denied a fighting chance against cancer because of what she can or cannot pay.
What We Do
Prevention camps in urban and rural areas, with a primary focus on breast and cervical cancer.
Palliative cancer care and chemotherapy made accessible for the financially disadvantaged.
Rural and urban mobile screening units that bring early cancer detection to where people live.
Subsidised hospitalisation and surgeries, with post-operative care for those who cannot afford it.
Herceptin blocks the HER2 receptors that fuel breast cancer growth — we raise funds so cost is never the reason a patient goes without it.
What Drives Us
To ensure no woman in Pune is denied cancer screening, treatment, or dignity in care because she cannot afford it — through free screening camps, subsidised chemotherapy, and palliative support delivered where people already are.
A Pune where early detection is routine, treatment is within reach for every income bracket, and no family faces cancer's cost — financial or emotional — completely alone.
How We Work
We meet every patient and family with empathy, not paperwork.
Free screenings and subsidised treatment brought to where people already are — no long journeys, no long waits.
Every woman we support is treated with the same respect and privacy we'd want for our own families.
Every rupee donated is tracked and reported. Our finances are open to anyone who asks.
We work alongside local hospitals, health workers and volunteers so support is sustainable, not one-off.
We measure outcomes, not just intentions, and share our progress every year.
Milestones
The first step towards cancer awareness was as simple as selling bands to friends in 2012. Every year since has built on the last — tap a year to see where the funds went.
The People Behind It
Meet our board, without whom Live Life Love Life would cease to exist.
Co-Founder
What started as a thought after the passing of his spouse, Cheeru, has today become a non-profit organisation that has raised enormous funds for the underprivileged. Praful is also Managing Director of Chiranjeev Restaurant and Foods Pvt Ltd, which operates the Malaka Spice restaurants.
Co-Founder
When Suraj lost his dear wife to cancer, he teamed up with Praful to start LLLLCF. With extensive experience in sales and marketing at popular beverage brands, Suraj is a self-made entrepreneur whose interpersonal skills are crucial to raising funds for the charity.
Board Member
With more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications, Mustafa uses his knowledge to build the Foundation's digital presence and growth. He works closely with the founding team on outreach and technology, helping LLLLCF reach more patients and donors with every campaign.
Board Member
Mahindra leads corporate initiatives for the charity — from raising funds with conglomerates to holding screening camps for their employees — with connections across the city's influencers. His network and relationship-building have opened doors to partnerships that keep the Foundation's programs funded and growing.
Supported by a growing network of volunteer doctors, nurses, counsellors and community health workers across Pune.
Our Implementation Partners
We fund the work; these partner organisations deliver it on the ground.
Working in cervical cancer prevention since 2010, Prayas runs free screening camps and services — colposcopy, biopsy, and ablative and excisional treatment of cervical precancer — reaching more than 20,000 women through its mobile screening unit. Live Life Love Life supports Prayas's colorectal cancer screening project for men and women, launched in July 2021.
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Provides in-patient care — admission, investigation, 24x7 nursing, supportive care, diet and stay — to the underprivileged at no cost, along with free diagnostic and therapeutic cancer services to military orphans and war widows. CIMS promotes cancer education and self-sustaining mass screening programmes across India.
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Founded by K.K. Nag in 1999, the NAG Foundation focuses on breast cancer treatment using the antibody Herceptin, which significantly increases the chances of a cure. A dedicated Herceptin fund helps raise money for underprivileged patients.
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