{"id":15150,"date":"2023-11-04T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/?page_id=15150"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:16:23","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We believe every child with
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Chaitanya Vikas Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in Hyderabad. We bring together doctors, physiotherapists, volunteers and donors to deliver free surgeries, therapy and long-term care to children with Cerebral Palsy across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana \u2014 ensuring that cost is never the reason a child is left behind.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Most children with Cerebral Palsy in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are born into families with very little. Their parents carry them, care for them as best they can and then, exhausted and without support, they run out of options.

\n\nWithout treatment, the child's joints stiffen. Contractures form. What could have been corrected with early surgery becomes permanent \u2014 not because medicine failed them, but because access did.\n

\nChaitanya Vikas Foundation was founded to break this cycle. Every rupee we receive goes directly to the children who need it most \u2014 in the form of surgery, physiotherapy, callipers and rehabilitation. No child is ever turned away because of cost.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/section>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Dr. Kurapati Krishnaiah is a senior Orthopaedic Surgeon, healthcare leader, and humanitarian with over four decades of clinical experience and more than twenty-five years devoted to the care of children with Cerebral Palsy and other disabling orthopaedic conditions.

\n\nHaving received advanced orthopaedic training in the United Kingdom and earned the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, he returned to India with a deep conviction that specialised healthcare should be accessible to every child, regardless of economic circumstances.\n

\nOver the years, Dr. Krishnaiah has dedicated a significant part of his professional life to serving underprivileged children through free medical camps, rehabilitation initiatives, and corrective surgical programmes across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Thousands of children affected by Cerebral Palsy, Polio-related deformities, Club Foot, and other disabling conditions have benefited from his expertise, helping them achieve greater mobility, independence, and dignity.

\n\nHis work has always extended beyond surgery. He firmly believes that meaningful rehabilitation requires a multidisciplinary approach involving physiotherapists, rehabilitation specialists, educators, social workers, volunteers, and families. Towards this goal, he has worked closely with organisations such as the Red Cross, Spastic Society of Nellore, and Prema Niketan, Vijayawada.

\n\nMoved by the enormous gap between the need for specialised care and its availability in rural and underserved communities, Dr. Krishnaiah joined hands with like-minded colleagues to establish Chaitanya Vikas. The organisation was founded with a simple yet powerful vision \u2014 to transform disability into ability and provide every child the opportunity to lead a productive, fulfilling, and dignified life.

\n\nBeyond his humanitarian work, Dr. Krishnaiah has served in several prominent leadership roles in healthcare, including as Chief Executive Officer of Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute, Hyderabad. He has also played a significant role in advancing medical research, institutional development, and healthcare governance.

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Dr. Vasavi is a physiotherapist with over 20 years of experience specialising in children with Cerebral Palsy. Certified in neuro-developmental therapy and trained in psychology, she brings a rare combination of clinical skill and emotional understanding to her work with children and families.

\n\nShe goes beyond the clinical setting \u2014 training parents, supporting families through difficult adjustments, and staying closely involved long after the formal treatment ends. She understands that lasting progress depends not just on what happens in therapy, but on what happens at home.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A parent who understands their child's condition is the most powerful rehabilitation tool there is. Her work is as much about building that understanding as it is about the therapy itself.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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We receive help from donors and transform it into hope, care, rehabilitation, and opportunity for children with Cerebral Palsy and their families.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Across rural and low-income communities, too many children never receive a timely diagnosis \u2014 or any care at all. Poverty and limited awareness delay treatment, and that delay has a lasting cost. The window for effective intervention is narrow, and once it closes, it rarely reopens.

\n\nWe believe \"management\" is a more meaningful word than \"treatment.\" True management means helping each child thrive \u2014 in movement, in learning, in communication, in social life. It means working with the whole family, not just the child. It means staying involved for as long as it takes.

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Most of the children we serve come from families with very little income. All treatment through Chaitanya Vikas is free \u2014 no exceptions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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That is the founding promise of Chaitanya Vikas Foundation \u2014 and everything we do is in service of it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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We believe every child with Cerebral Palsy deserves a chance to move freely. Chaitanya Vikas Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in Hyderabad. We bring together doctors, physiotherapists, volunteers and donors to deliver free surgeries, therapy and long-term care to children with Cerebral Palsy across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana \u2014 ensuring that cost is never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15150"}],"version-history":[{"count":253,"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16774,"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15150\/revisions\/16774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaitanyavikas.org\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}