2015 ANNUAL REPORTBINAYTARA FOUNDATION Promoting health and education. Changing lives.

President’s Message For the past nine years, the work of Binaytara Foundation has been guided by the same principles: Benevolence (B) - to help the people in need; Transparency (T) - to gain your trust and to remain accountable; Friendship (F) - to seek out partnerships and form collaborations with individuals and organizations.

Guided by these three principles, our activities this past year were centered around helping people in need. When the deadly earthquake hit Nepal in the Spring of 2015, you jumped in to help and we followed your lead and collaborated with local non-profits to provide immediate relief and later to build temporary homes for the earthquake survivors. Your generosity and compassion touched more than 700 lives directly and many others indirectly.

When I visited Nepal in October 2014, one of the neighbors from my village came to me asking for help with his wife’s pain. His wife had an end stage cancer and she would cry all night in pain. It affected the quality of life of everyone in the family. But there was no care or service that could ease her pain. This incident reinforced my interest in establishing a home hospice program in Nepal. After I discussed this with the board members and the friends and supporters of Binaytara Foundation, we spared no time in creating a home hospice team and by December 2015, our home hospice staff in Nepal were already visiting terminally ill patients at their home.

Our focus here at home continues to be on improving cancer care by educating physicians and other healthcare providers about the

latest developments in the field. Last year’s conference in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, drew over 150 attendees from various parts of the country and abroad including over twenty faculties from the nation’s prestigious institutions. These conferences also feature scientific abstract sessions allowing researchers to present their findings related to hematologic and oncologic conditions.

Looking at 2016, I anticipate the Binaytara Foundation to grow its impact through several new projects and continuation of the existing projects. Beginning in Spring 2016, we will provide mini-project grants to support innovative projects that implement evidence-based practice to improve patient care and population health in resource-poor communities. Our collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Center for Global Health will continue to strengthen our mission to improve healthcare in developing countries. We also expect the BMT Center at Civil Service Hospital to start the BMT services in 2016.

Because of your partnership and support, we have been able to help more and more people every year. BTF is committed to transparency, and we appreciate your feedback and active involvement in keeping us accountable and focused on our mission. I am very thankful for your support and hope that our friendship and collaborative efforts to improve cancer care worldwide and to help people in resource-poor communities will continue in the years to come. Dr. Binay Shah

President, Binaytara Foundation

ABOUT US THE BINAYTARA FOUNDATION (BTF) is a 501 (c) 3) non-profit organization established with the goal of promoting health and education in resource poor communities. BTF has a special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

MISSION STATEMENTThe Binaytara Foundation seeks to improve healthcare in resource poor communities and improve cancer care worldwide by collaborating with national and international organizations to:

develop healthcare manpower in underserved areas improve access to cancer care by establishing direct care facilities and services promote the practice of evidence based medicine by providing research grants to young physicians and healthcare providers in training improve knowledge and competence of healthcare professionals by offering them continuing educational materials though live and virtual meetings, webinars, and other educational forums.

ABOUT US LEADERSHIP 2015

Dr. Binay Shah President Hematologist/Oncologist

Tara Shah TreasureAuthor/Entreprenuer

Paul Tutcher SecretaryReal Estate Broker

Dr. Yusuf Qamruzzaman Board MemberHematologist/Oncologist

Dr. Damiano Rondelli Member Professor of Medicine and Director of Stem Cell Transplant Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Bipul Luitel, PhD WebmasterGrowth Zilla Inc.

CORPORATE SPONSORS Seattle Cancer Care AllianceNovartis OncologyTakeda OncologyCelgene Corporations St Joseph regional Medical Center

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS Cancer Care NepalHelp Nepal NetworkInternational Institute of Anticancer ResearchSpokane Valley Cancer CentersUniversity of Illinois Center for Global Health

VOLUNTEERS 2015 Amit KhanalGaurab LuitelHamza RoufPujan KandelSabina DesarSandhya SharmaTeresa ReynoldsTsedey Tedla

Humanitarian Efforts Helping the earthquake survivors of Nepal

Benevolence, Transparency & Friendship

“Countries have man made boundaries, humanity does not”

Dr. Binay Shah, Founder, Binaytara foundation

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Immediate Relief We provided food, blankets, and other relief materials to approximately 600 families in Gorkha, Dhading, Kavre, and Sindhupalchowk districts

Building Homes BTF helped build homes for approximately 200 families. Already built 45 homes. Collaborated with a local non-profit for this project.

Cancer CareWe will be establishing a patient support fund to help provide cancer care to cancer patients affected by the earthquake

Humanitarian Efforts Saving lives of blood cancer patients in Nepal

We collaborated with the University of Illinois and the Civil Service Hospital of Nepal to establish Nepal’s first bone marrow transplant (BMT) center. The BTF sponsored training of the BMT team in Chicago. More than 26 million people

live in Nepal. More than 300 cases of blood cancer are diagnosed each year.Blood cancer patients don’t have access to bone marrow transplant. We are currently providing scholarship to one physician to study clinical genetics in

Colombo Univeristy, Sri-Lanka; after completing his training in clinical genetics, the physician will return to Civil Service Hospital and work in the genetic lab. This service will help hundreds of blood cancer patients and Sickle cell patients.

Humanitarian Efforts Promoting evidence based practice in resource poor settings

Making impact in communities by supporting small projects led by young physicians. The above pictures show children with cerebral palsy receiving physical therapy and home visit as part of a research project supported by the Binaytara Foundation.

Humanitarian Efforts Nepal Home Hospice Project

One of the very few home hospice programs in Nepal

A joint project of Binaytara Foundation and Cancer Care Nepal.

Thirteen nurses trained to provide hospice care

BTF home hospice program uses Electronic Meidcal Records

The demand continues to grow

Medical conferences

Started annual cancer conference in Nepal Organizing annual oncology conferences in USA for 4 years Last conference attended by more than 125 delegates A total of 24 continuing education hours provided to healthcare professionals

Financial Analysis

We are grateful to the generous support of BTF’s board members, friends and corporate sponsors. In 2015, BTF was able to maintain a strong financial position and expand its programs. The charts on this page highlight BTF’s income expenses in fiscal year that started on November 1st, 2014, and ended on October 31, 2015.

Our Individual COntributors Amit Khanal Anastasia PoulliAnita Lopes Anthony Abraham Ariana Melendez Baldev K Malik Barbara Davis Bipul Luitel Brad Bunney Brinda Calkins Cathy Forgey Christopher Fernandes Dale Dixon Damiano Rondelli Dana Sleeper Daniel Calapp Dieter Klatt Dipesh Uprety Drs. Erickson, Weiss, VanRooyan, Allred Edwin H Chen Ele

Elise Vanda Gerald Tutcher Geri Fox Ian Gaston Jason Wang Jean Roberts Jeeyon Grace Rim Jin Zhang John AMcnulty John James Parker Joy Hammel Khan Family Foundation Kristy Skerrett Laura Erickson Mandan Joshi Mohammad Jahanzeb Nandita Biswas Nikolai Arendovich Parameswaran Venugopal Paul W Blessing Paupa Payne

Pavan Srivastava Pilar Perez Rakesh Mandal Regina Schwind Rhea Begeman Rhonda Baker Samuel J Wainwright Sapan Shah Scwab Charitable Shikhar Shah Sumit Shah Suvani Sanyal/UIC College of Medicine Students Theresa Ibarra Tulsi Pant Vaishak Amblee Valarie/Tim Erickson Xenofon Papanicolau