TRUST - Introduction
The Ganga Prem Hospice Project is a project of the Delhi based Shradha Cancer Care Trust. The Trust is a public charity set up to establish desperately needed cancer care facilities in Northern India.

Shradha Cancer Care Trust was founded by the eminent oncologist Dr A. K. Dewan from Delhi. Dr. Dewan is the head of the Surgical Oncology Department at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute in North Delhi. He has been working with cancer patients for 27 years and has been deeply moved by the physical agony and mental anguish which confronts both the patients and their families.

The lack of cancer facilities in India, where there are 1,000,000 new cancer cases every year, has been a source of great concern to him. In November 2005, this sincere concern led him to establish the Shradha Cancer Care Trust. The Trust is a public charity dedicated to creating medical facilities in general and in particular cancer care centres.

Ganga Prem Hospice
As its first project, the Trust has chosen to create a much needed hospice for terminally ill cancer patients. The Ganga Prem Hospice, which will have a spiritual and holistic orientation, will be constructed on the bank of the river Ganga, near to the town of Rishikesh in Uttrakhanda. Dr. Dewan and his Trust members have been joined in their efforts by spiritual adepts and holistic therapists from the area.

As the Ganga Prem Hospice project developed, two new associations were formed abroad which help provide support to the project. The U.S. Non Profit has its centre in Eugene, Oregon, and the U.K. Trust is based in London. Both aim at raising funds and finding skilled volunteers to help end of life care and the Ganga Prem Hospice project. The US non profit is known as 'End of Life Care International' and the UK Trust is known as 'Ganga Prem Hospice'.