Cancer Education Research Foundation
free cancer care to those who need it most
Cancer Education Research Foundation (CERF) is a national foundation set up to help eliminate cancer by funding purchase of cancer treatment equipment to promote health globally.
ABOUT
Cancer Education Research Foundation
The CERF has been incorporated in Canada and meets the legal requirements of Canadian legislation and policies related to charitable organizations. CERF does not release funds to any organization without first conducting a due diligence on the organizations governance, reputation and track record in cancer research and treatment. Your donations are protected and handled with competent stewardship.

DONATE GENEROUSLY
We Appreciate your Generous Support
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is indeed a living tribute to your kindness and generosity. We need your support now more than ever to continue with this mission. You can now send your donations through CERF and obtain your tax creditable receipt.
Our values
Our mission & vision
75% of the patients who come to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in Pakistan are too poor to meet their basic daily needs, which is why, with your help, we provide them with free treatment throughout the year. Our founder is unable to make an appeal for our hospitals this year, but in this absence, we hope you will continue supporting our patients and show that we still stand together in the fight against cancer.

Build Karachi Hospital
Oral cancer rates in Karachi are among the highest in the world, Help us move one step closer to providing high-quality cancer treatment, free of charge, to the neediest in the Karachi city.

Feed a Cancer Patient
Most patients who qualify for free cancer care at Shaukat Khanum Hospital are undernourished, even before they begin cancer treatment. Can you help us feed them this year?

Sponsor A Cancer Patient
We’ve transformed our patient sponsorship experience! Now you can choose the patient you want to sponsor, hear about the progress of their treatment, and even visit them in hospital.

Donation Appeal For SKM Cancer Hospital
Dear Friends,
As-Salaamu Alaikum,
In December 2022, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore completed twenty-eight years of serving humanity and our second hospital, in Peshawar, marked seven years of operations. There was a time when I was told that building and running a cancer hospital in Pakistan, where the majority of patients would be treated free of charge, was impossible. Your continuing support over the years has silenced the nay-sayers and has shown that the Pakistani nation is capable of overwhelming generosity and compassion.
For Pakistan, 2022 was fraught with a variety of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the devastating floods and the fallout from global economic turmoil. Nevertheless, we continued to provide world-class treatment to our cancer patients, in Lahore, in Peshawar and at our diagnostic center and clinic in Karachi. I want to thank the countless donors and supporters who make it possible for us to continue to provide state-of-the-art cancer treatment, free of charge, to over 75 percent of our patients.
Today, I remain more confident than ever that your generosity will enable us to open our third, and Pakistan’s largest, dedicated cancer hospital in Karachi at the end of 2023, as planned, In sha’ Allah.
With warmest personal regards,

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Donation Programmes
Shaukat Khanum has multiple donation programs which target the most effective ways for you to donate for the cause of social development.
Donate a Meal
Sponsorship of Equipment
Pay Your Zakat
Give a Monthly Sadaqah
Give Fidyah, Fitrana and Kaffarah

Events
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Volunteer
Become a Volunteer Now!
Join our volunteers today. Challenge yourself. And help us make some noise to get the word out about cancer in Pakistan. Together we can save lives.
OF HOPE
Shaukat Khanum Hospitals
Changing The Face of Cancer Care in Pakistan
Our first hospital was established in Lahore in 1994 by Imran Khan. We now have a second hospital in Peshawar. we hope you will continue supporting our new hospital development in Karachi and show that we still stand together in the fight against cancer.
SKMCH&RC, Karachi
A new branch of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital is planned for Karachi and is currently being built and is projected to be completed by 2023.
SKMCH&RC, Peshawar
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Peshawar, was inaugurated on December 29th, 2015.
SKMCH&RC, Lahore
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Peshawar, was inaugurated on December 29, 1994.