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Raj and Mabelle Arole

Founder

Founder of Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP)

Raj and Mabelle Arole is the founder of Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP) (1970)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and rural & agriculture from Jamkhed.

Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP)

CRHP pioneered a community-based primary healthcare model that trains local village health workers, and continues to serve rural and marginalised communities around Jamkhed in Maharashtra with integrated health and development programmes.

Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP) reports the following, on its own site:

  • 54,000 mobile clinics held
  • 23,000 free surgeries performed
  • 16,000 COVID-19 patients treated free