Eight Weeks in Jamkhed: A Couple’s Reflection on Their Public Health Internship

Written by Jason Worley, a visiting undergraduate student from Brigham Young University, and Kylie Worley, a visiting business professional from Utah The two months we have spent at the Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed have been an eye-opening experience that we will never forget. There truly is no way for us to explain or share...

A Village Visit to Pimperkhed

Written by SJ Renfroe It is still my first week being at CRHP, and already I have learned so much about community-oriented health which is sustainable and based on pursuing human dignity and equality. In order to better understand CRHP’s programs in action, I went with a group of students to Pimperkhed, one of CRHP’s...

“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...

CRHP Summer Reflection

Written By Mitchell Wang, visiting student “Hey! Welcome to CRHP! This is your room and if you need anything, just tell me, and I will get it for you.” A CRHP worker with a warm voice, optimistic tone and a big happy smiling face, welcomed me to this “brand new place”. As a high school...

A Visitor’s Village Overnight

One of the most unique experiences that interns and fellows here at CRHP have is the opportunity to get to know our Village Health Workers (VHWs) and to occasionally spend a night with one of them in her village. It was my great privilege to be able to spend a night in Sakat with one...