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CONTEXT: Nearly 32,000 families from poor villages travel to major cities to access free cancer treatment for their children. But while the treatment is free, living in the city is expensive. Within weeks, families exhaust their savings and end up living on the streets. CHALLENGES: St. Jude's provides children with cancer and their families with free, safe, hygienic, and furnished accommodation in the city. But they have only a few thousand beds and needed more donations to change that. FILM: In the film, a young girl named Renu Kadam gives a heartbreaking ‘tour’ of how to survive cancer while living on the streets. Shot in one continuous take, she shares survival tips such as keeping a bucket ready for vomit, and the necessity of wearing socks at night to prevent rats from biting one’s toes. Through her eagerness to help and childlike innocence, the film shows the haunting reality that thousands of children have to live with every day in big cities while fighting their cancer.
