“My 3-year-old daughter kept burning with fever again and again. I thought it was just an infection. I gave medicines and prayed it would stop. Then one day I touched her stomach… and my hand hit something hard. A lump. In that second, my hands started shaking. Now, that lump has grown into a 15-inch tumour that refuses to shrink and I am terrified of the danger it will bring upon my child.” - Shahanaza, Anayra’s mother

Little Anayra was a playful, laughing child, until her fevers started repeating

It started with a fever, the kind every parent thinks they can manage with medicines. But for Anayra, the fever was a warning of a silent killer. When her mother felt the lump, the nightmare began.

A massive cancerous tumour was growing inside her right kidney and crushing her organs

The tests were horrifying. While a normal infection level sits at 5, Anayra’s was a staggering 145, a number so high even the doctors went silent. A scan confirmed the Wilms Tumour, a rare kidney cancer. It didn't just sit there, it grew with a terrifying speed, reaching 15 inches, rapidly pressing against her tiny organs.

Doctors hoped that chemo would shrink it before surgery but her cancer didn’t listen

The doctors planned to shrink the tumour, remove it through surgery and follow up with radiotherapy. Despite the gruelling rounds of chemo, instead of shrinking, this tumour is filling with pus and growing larger by the day.

This father faces a devastating possibility of losing his job and his daughter, both at the same time

Sameer hasn’t gone to work in 15–20 days. He doesn’t even know if his job still exists. He has already burned through Rs.5 lakhs through loans, savings and borrowed money. With 3 children to feed, now his daughter’s life depends on money they simply don’t have. 

“Anayra should be playing with her siblings, not fighting a cancer that is trying to shut down her body at this tender age. I am a father of 3, but today, I am a man who has failed and fears every doctor’s update. I’ve spent every rupee, taken every loan and stayed by her bedside so long I don't even know if I have a job to go back to. I urgently need 24 Lakhs to give her the surgery she needs to live…but if I don’t arrange this money now…I will lose my baby girl forever." - Sameer, Father 

She needs urgent surgery right now, before the tumour becomes so large that even surgery won’t save her