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Comprehensive Rural Health Project: Jamkhed, India

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The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP), has been working among the rural poor and marginalized for over 40 years. Founded in 1970 by Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole to bring healthcare to the poorest of the poor, CRHP has become an organization that empowers people to eliminate injustices through integrated efforts in health and development. CRHP works by mobilizing and building the capacity of communities to achieve access to comprehensive development and freedom from stigma, poverty and disease. Pioneering a comprehensive approach to primary community-based healthcare (also known as the Jamkhed Model), CRHP has been a leader in public health and development in rural communities in India and around the world.

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  • The Hospital
    The Hospital
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    The Julia Hospital is located on CRHP’s campus in Jamkhed. It is a 50-bed facility, equipped with modern diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. The hospital uses a sliding-scale fee structure that provides affordable healthcare to an underserved rural population of over 500,000. The hospital serves as a training facility for VHWs, as well as a demonstrative tool for students in training and research programs. To see more images from CRHP, search "CRHP".
  • VHW
    VHW
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    The Village Health Worker (VHW), mostly illiterate and low caste, is the key change agent for a comprehensive approach to health improvement. Selected by the communities themselves, the VHWs not only act as health workers, but also mobilize their communities to achieve better sanitation and hygiene, family planning, women and child nutrition and women’s economic rights. CRHP works with the VHW within her communities to help form groups such as the Farmers’ Clubs, Women’s Self-Help Groups and Adolescent Girls/Boys Programs. Through these outlets, project villages are able to identify socioeconomic and healthcare barriers, thereby defining the parameters for applicable solutions. To see more images from CRHP, search "CRHP".
  • AGP
    AGP
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    The Adolescent Girls Program focuses on building strong young women with an emphasis on the value of the girl child, education and delaying early marriage. Recognizing the fundamental human rights of girls and women as equal to those of boys and men is a core tenet of the program. Utilizing an interactive teaching approach, CRHP is showing girls as well as their communities the importance of a girl’s right to earn, defend themselves and to make choices that reduce their risk of violence and ill-health. To see more images from CRHP, search "CRHP".
  • CRHP Preschool
    CRHP Preschool
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    The CRHP Preschool provides free schooling and two nutritious meals for 45 children between the ages of three to six years old that come from the local community. Integrating nutritional foods and health screening with a Montessori inspired teaching curriculum ensures that children of this impoverished community are prepared for their entry into primary school. The free schooling also allows the parents to find day labor and not worry about suitable care for their children.