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Donation for you from charitable institutions/ organization by an A/C cheque in favour of “CKF”along with a letter from that Institution/ Organisation’s Letter head with seal.

We tried different methods to avoid fraudulent activities and this is the best model that really worked. Some of the fraudulent activities were (a)bringing fake medical bills that you can get from many medical stores (b)showing us cheque from someone as if it was a donation from that person and then requesting CKF to match it (c)cheques with insufficient fund accounts which bounced.

Yes , you still can get support from CKF by expressing your financial difficulties, the purpose and at the discretion of CKF, help will be given from CKF / affiliated organizations.

No. Your doctor or hospital must be empanelled/enlisted with CKF to qualify for the support. To get empanelled Doctor should write to Director Operations - CKF and get approved by the CKF Board. See the list of empanelled Doctor/Hospital/Medical outlets.

CKF issues cheques to the doctor/hospital which is not a normal mode of payment that doctors/hospitals accept in Kerala. It is to ensure that they can trust CKF cheques and the cheques will be honoured and will not be bounced. Also this builds a mutual trust between CKF and patient’s doctor/hospital.

No. There is absolutely no fraud involved. CKF works with other charitable organizations like Melam Charities, Pavos Foundation Cochin, YWCA Cochin, Association of Renal Recipient Association, Care & Share USA, etc to find the matching funds for you. If you receive the matching donation cheque it will also include the organization that made the matching possible or it may be from the affiliated organization itself.

Yes, there is a Rs 2500 per month (i.e CKF will match upto Rs 2500) on every patient unless the donor agrees to support more. For example if you can find a donor who is ready to take all (or a higher support limit) your medical expenses he can specify that while he donates. Donor can directly contribute to CKF or to any of CKF’s partners like Care & Share. Higher support can also be given on individualized basis from the CKF depends on the purpose ( as special cases).

CKF meets patients on second Thursday of every month at the administrative office of Director Operation, Treasurer and Secretary wil be available to help you.

You may have to keep it in mind that we already identified lots of fraud applicants and we turned them down. You probably heard from someone like him/her. If you are a deserving patient you will get our support. We will not make you walk back and forth many times to receive our support, we guarantee that. Our process is very simple.

Melam Charities International, Care and Share, U.S.A., Pavos Foundation,
YWCA, Cochin, Association of Renal Recipient Association.

No. Not yet. We are working on getting 80G approval. Once we get this then 50% of your contributions will be tax deductible. We will update our website as soon as we get this approval

No. We don’t have FCRA approval to receive foreign currency. Those who are USA can contribute thru Care & Share (www.careandshare.com). Care & Share has a Kerala Chapter thru which they can support your CKF patients. Your contribution to Care & Share is tax deductible too. Others will have to transfer thru their domestic account.

No. We do not identify or want to encourage cast based or religion based support. There is couple of exceptions to this rule. (a)You can designate your funds to scheduled castes or scheduled tribes (b)You can designate your funds to women & children (15 years or younger)

Yes. Our financial statement is audited by a registered Chartered Accountant. The statement with the fund distribution for different activities can be found at *

CKF provides details of patients (with their contact address) who were benefited thru your contributions. If your funds came thru one of our partners then you need to approach them. Since the funds came to CKF thru the partner we may be releasing the patient information only to them.