They convert emotion into sensible approach
| Date :20-Jun-2019 |
By Vikas Vaidya:
Samarth and Sarthak to distribute caps to women cancer patients in Nagpur hospitals
At their tender age, they witnessed the sufferings of their close relatives diagnosed with cancer. The relatives were women who lost their hair after they had undergone chemotherapy. Samarth Nath was then 13 years while Sarthak was 11 year old. That pain, agony did not go from their minds. Instead of brooding over the pain of relatives, these children came up with the idea of distributing cotton caps to the women patients who lost their hair. Samarth and Sarthak Nath, students of The Sanskriti School, New Delhi have started a new socially relevant enterprise called ‘ChemoCaps.co.in’ through which these teenagers are taking steps to help provide comfortable headgear such as caps and scarves to cancer patients who have lost their hair. Both have roots in Nagpur.
The famous Meena Saraf of Gondwana Gallery in Ramdaspeth is their grandmother. Their mother Sankruti hails from famous Saraf family of Nagpur. Samarth came up with this idea along with his younger brother, Sarthak Nath, while realising the social agony their relatives faced when they lost their hair to chemotherapy. Both these children themselves took pains and designed the cap.
Both have taken utmost care while creating cap so that a woman patient wears, it does not give impression of hiding the baldness. Thereafter they pitched their idea to provide caps to such patients to a few corporates and obtained support from few garment manufacturing companies who helped them under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Raising funds through sale of products to those who can afford them, and through sponsorships and donations from corporates and philanthropists alike, ‘Chemocaps’ which Samarth and Sarthak launched in May 2018 has directly assisted more than 500 individuals obtaining cancer treatment at Government hospitals.
They have also motivated many other students of their school and neighborhood to volunteer and contribute to this cause and help the needy. In Nagpur on a short summer break to their maternal grandparent’s house, these kids have decided to distribute Chemocaps to patients of Rashtra Sant Tukaoji Regional Cancer Hospital, at HCG NCHRI and to patients being treated by Dr Sushil Mandhania, noted Oncologist. Most of the children spend vacations enjoying at some tourist city but Samarth and Sarthak travelled all the way to Nagpur from Delhi just to distribute caps to the women. The smile on the faces of the women would be the real enjoyment for these two cute, serene children.