We restarted our Samiksha Foundation Learning Center at Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center, Narayana Health, on 8 March 2021. Congratulations to the teams from Samiksha and U-Sky for launching the Samiksha - U-Sky Digital Learning Platform, an essential part of the new learning program at NH. This platform makes tailored educational content available to the children both at the hospital and at home, on tablets and web browsers. Read more about our education program.

Read below for a summary of our impact in 2020-21. For more information about our ongoing education program, read the March 2021 newsletter. Pre COVID-19 We reached 1568 children from June 2019 to March 2020 at the Samiksha Foundation Learning Centres. At Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO), Bangalore: 971 children, of which 540 were in grades 1 to 10, and 2 were in high school. At Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre (MSCC), Narayana Health City, Bangalore: 534 children, of which 289 were in grades 1 to 10, and 9 were in high school.

Samiksha 2.0 will leverage Beneficial Technology to enable remote teaching/learning for the education of school age children undergoing long-term cancer treatment (hence missing school) especially where in-the-ward Samiksha Foundation Learning Centre (SFLC) established under Samiksha 1.0 are not functional at the hospitals for the children due to Covid 19. Samiksha 2.0 -Development Challenges being addressed: Though it appears the situation due to the Covid19 pandemic might return to a manageable phase soon, the possibility of going back to the hospitals to restart the Learning Centres such that the volunteers and staff of SF can interact with the immune-compromised children on a day-to-day basis seems highly unlikely.

We pay loving tribute to the late Ms Rafika Banu, a brilliant and hardworking Samiksha student who left us on 5 July 2020. Rafika was the daughter of Shri Babujaan and Smt Majanbi, residents of Tumkur district, and aspired to be a Doctor. She was a student from 2016 onwards at the Samiksha learning centre at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, where she was being treated for Ewings Sarcoma.