Even for those living within Mumbai, the debilitating side effects of treatment often make it difficult for patients to continue with their earlier jobs. Unsympathetic employers are reluctant to allow time off from work, making it difficult to keep appointments for treatment.And yet, cancer patients need to be kept busy to prevent their brooding, and like all of us, they derive dignity and self respect from being able to take care of themselves and their own. 

In order to ease the pain and suffering of the cancer Patient, CPAA established a Rehabilitation Centre in 1987. The purpose of the Centre was to provide Medical, Emotional, Financial and Social Aid to the poor and needy patient of cancer through a single window.

So far through this Centre, almost 15,000 patients and their dependants have been reinstated into the mainstream of life by making them Capable and Strong, Confident and Self-sufficient. The breadwinners who have lost their means of livelihood, have been taught new skills, and the untrained and unemployed dependants have been initiated into vocation training in order to make them self reliant. During this period, apart from the Cancer medication, each patient is given regular wages, conveyance, travel allowance, accommodation allowance for out-of-towners, food-grains, books, tuition fees, food supplements and prosthesis.

Today the Rehabilitation Centre provides relief from two workshops, which can house almost 100 workers. Crafts like Tailoring, Printing, Candle Making, Binding, Box Making, Envelope Making, and Painting and Breast Prosthesis making are taught in State-of-the-Art workshops. Elaborate designing and stringent quality-control measures; ensure products fit for the elite. Hence the customers range from the Taj Mahal Hotel chain to Contemporary Arts & Crafts, from Westside to Bombay Stores and Tressorie, from the Birlas and Ambani's to prominent film stars and industrialists.

The importance of a fully functional Rehabilitation Centre cannot be undermined. The sheer comfort of being in the company of similarly afflicted persons, learning a craft in order to become self-reliant or executing a job order, patients find new meaning to their lives. For these inmates of the Rehabilitation Centre, every morning has a purpose, and every evening is a satisfying reward.

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Appreciation from Bill Clinton:

Our Rehabilitation Centre products have been appreciated by no less than Bill Clinton, ex-President of the United States. During his visit to India, Manju Gupta sent him a gift of some terracotta items made by the Rehabilitation Centre. She was pleasantly surprised to find an envelope embossed with "The White House, Washington" in the mail thanking her for the gift.

Items produced by the Rehabilitation Centre (listed below) have become popular in outlets such as the Taj and Oberoi Group Hotel Shops, Takete Maluma, Central Cottage Industries, Shoppers Stop, Srishti and Crosswords. They are regularly found at exhibitions held at the World Trade Centre, Concern India Foundation, the Society Collection at Mumbai and Pune.

Handloom Cotton, Silk and Silk with Leather Stationary Items:
Executive Set, Comprising	Rs.1500 (cotton)
File tray Note pad Pin box (one section) Card holder Pencil tumbler Photo frame (double) Tissue box Gift Bag	Rs.2100 (silk)
Telephone Set, Comprising	Rs.300 (cotton)
Telephone index Jotting pad Tumbler Gift bag
	Rs.600(silk)
Car Set, Comprising	Rs.600 (cotton)
2 Cushion covers Tissue box	Rs.900 (silk)

We produce a variety of paper products, like shopping bags, paper bags for packaging, and envelopes, each of which can be customized by screen or offset printing. We also undertake printing of visiting cards, letterheads, greeting and invitation cards.

A dedicated unit makes T-shirts, tracksuits and jackets. Our state-of-the-art Japanese Juki machines handle all operations relating to the making of T-shirts, including fabric cutting, button holing, attaching, elasticating with computerised flat locking, 3 and 5 thread overlocking, and intricate embroidery.

The Taj group of hotels source their linen requirements (for all 44 hotels) from our Rehabilitation Center. This includes fabrication, printing and embroidery of laundry bags, half aprons, full aprons, bedsheets, tablecloths, tray mats, tea cosy covers, milk cosy covers, dinner napkins, and cocktail napkins. A large number of diyas, Ganpatis and other terracotta items are made by the Rehabilitation Centre.

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