The ImPaCCT School Program – Restoring Normalcy Through Education
At Tata Memorial Centre, we recognise that cancer treatment in childhood often disrupts education—leading to prolonged school absence, cognitive challenges, and a lack of mental stimulation. In most cases, education is pushed to the background while treatment takes precedence. However, evidence from developed countries shows that timely educational interventions enable children to reintegrate successfully into mainstream schooling.
To address this gap, the ImPaCCT School Program was launched in October 2009 with a singular vision: To ensure that every child undergoing cancer treatment continues to learn, grow, and feel “normal”—because for a child, normal means school.
The ImPaCCT School Program ensures that children:
• Continue formal education through hospital-based classrooms in OPD & wards.
• Receive customised lessons in numeracy, literacy & art from specialised educators.
• Access Canshala (a special school) or academic support for senior students.
• Benefit from our Education Scholarship Program (over 1,000 beneficiaries to date, up to ₹1,00,000 per child, plus books, tablets & laptops).
• Engage in activities like music, dance, yoga, theatre, sports, pet therapy, and skill-building programs.
• Integrated with our After Completion of Therapy (ACT) Clinic—which has registered over 5,000 childhood cancer survivors—this program helps children reintegrate into school, improve cognition, and aspire for higher education and careers.
Because for a child, “normal” means school, and every child deserves that normalcy.
Officer-In-Charge (OIC), ImPaCCT Foundation
Paediatric Oncology
OPD – 82, Room No: 27, Main Building, Ground Floor, Tata Memorial Hospital Parel, Mumbai - 400012 INDIA
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