Sustainable Farming Practices: A New Curriculum for the Adolescent Boys Program

As we head into another year of drought in Maharashtra, CRHP has identified that it is increasingly important to work with farmers on sustainable farming practices, food security, and the mental health implications of drought on farmers, their families, and their communities. In the last decade, farmer suicides in India have gained significant attention. This...

A Helping Hand: CRHP’s Latest Technology Exchange with SwissLimbs

This past week, CRHP’s Artificial Limbs team and SwissLimbs, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland, worked together to expand the services offered by the Artificial Limbs Workshop at CRHP. The mission of SwissLimbs is to provide mobility to all people as a fundamental human right, which complements CRHP’s vision of comprehensive health access and empowerment...

Staff Profile: The Story of Sultana Shaikh

Sultana spent her childhood in Kharda, one hour from CRHP. She comes from a large family, 6 sisters and 5 brothers. However, because her family did not have access to proper medicine or health facilities, many of her siblings died, with only five surviving into adulthood. When she was 7 years old her mother passed...

Jabar’s Work With Artificial Limbs: Empowerment One Step at a Time

Even before Jabar became CRHP staff, he grew up with CRHP: “CRHP has been a part of my life since my childhood.” Jabar was one of five children, and he lived across the street from CRHP. Both his mother and his sister worked on staff, with his older sister working in the Julia Hospital as...

“Empowered Women Empower Women” – A Student’s Video Reflection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bp4lcrDwyQ This past January, CRHP hosted a group of students from Elon University in the United States. Take a look and listen to this video in which one of the students explains what women working at CRHP taught her about the links between empowerment and health.

Sacred Heart University Testimonials

This January we hosted students from Sacred Heart University for two weeks. Here are the students' reflections about their experiences here. Enjoy! My favorite experience was going into the villages and meeting the people who benefit from the knowledge of the Village Health Workers. It was amazing to see the influence one person can have...

A Medical Student’s Experience at CRHP in Rural Medicine

I recently completed a four-week medical elective at CRHP, with the intention to gain exposure to medicine in a developing country. I thought that most of my training would be through the hospital in an observatory role. However, I soon realised that curative medicine and secondary health care was only a small aspect of the...

A Visiting Student’s Perspective: University of Melbourne

Written by Edwin Kwong, a visiting Master's Student from the University of Melbourne From the outside, CRHP didn’t look particularly impressive – it is a compound consisting of a few white concrete buildings, that didn’t look particularly state of the art. How then, I thought, does CRHP do all the amazing things that I’ve heard...

Five Years Later: Elon Fellow Returns to CRHP

  At the end of my Elon Fellowship year at CRHP, the closest thing I could imagine to my ideal job was to become a Village Health Worker back home. During the first three years after I returned to North Carolina, I used what I had learned from the VHWs and Mobile Health Team to...

Cornell College Photo Voice Project

This month, we had students from Cornell College visit the CRHP campus. For their final project, the students were asked to present photographs on their CRHP course experience that focused on gender and development in India. Here are their photographs and reflections. Enjoy! Yamunabai, a VHW, continues to share her knowledge with others. A reflection...