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'''Mabelle Arole''', born 26 December 1935 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India is a recipient of the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership along with her husband, [[Rajanikant Arole|Raj Arole]] for the award-winning [[Comprehensive Rural Health Project]].<ref>http://gs.columbia.edu/mabelle-arole-international-fellowship</ref>

==Early life==
She was the second of three children of Rajappan D. Immanuel, a professor of New Testament Greek at the Theological Seminary in that city and Beatrice Gunaratnampillai. Her parents were first cousins and came from an important family in Tamil Nadu. They were third generation Methodist Christians. Mabelle Arole then married Rajinikant Arole.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mabellearolefellowship2009-2010.blogspot.in/2008/11/mabelle-arole-fellowship-2009-2010.html|title = Mabelle Arole Fellowship 2009-2010: Mabelle Arole Fellowship 2009-2010|date = 27 November 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.future.org/news/20110609/tribute-raj-arole-comprehensive-rural-health-project-jamkhed-india |title=Archived copy |access-date=28 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113144948/http://www.future.org/news/20110609/tribute-raj-arole-comprehensive-rural-health-project-jamkhed-india |archive-date=13 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Work==
[[Rajanikant Arole]] was born in Rahuri, Ahmednagar on 10 March 1935. Mabelle Arole was born Mabelle Immanuel in Jabalpur on 25 December 1935, daughter of a professor of Theology and Greek who taught at Duke University and in India. They met at Christian Medical College in Vellore, from where they graduated in 1959, at the top of their class. Married on 26 April 1960, they vowed to devote their new life to caring for the marginalized in rural areas. In 1962–66, they worked in a Mission Hospital in Vadala, 320 kilometers east of Mumbai. After this, the couple spent four years in the [[United States]] on a [[Fulbright Scholarship]] to obtain their residency training in Medicine and Surgery, as well as a [[Masters in Public Health]], at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. Under the tutelage of Carl Taylor, a leader in the field of community health, the Aroles conceptualized the idea of CRHP to provide community-based [[primary health care]] and development to poor and [[marginalized]] communities in rural India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uscglobalhealth.blogspot.com/2009/08/community-rural-health-project-jamkhed.html|title=Blogger}}</ref>

=== Founding of CRHP ===
Returning to India after their studies in the US, the Aroles decided to work in [[Jamkhed]], a poor and drought-prone [[Taluka]] strife with inequalities.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Causes of Recurrent Drought in Ahmednagar|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=22|issue=24|pages=924–927|jstor=4377091|last1=Sathe|first1=Madhusudan Dattatraya|year=1987}}</ref> The village leaders of Jamkhed invited the Aroles to visit and talk to the community about their project. After a successful visit, the Aroles decided to stay and founded CRHP in August 1970.<ref>Arole, M. & Arole, R. (1994) Jamkhed - A Comprehensive Rural Health Project. Macmillan Press: London, UK.</ref> The initial coverage of CRHP was limited to 8 villages, with a total population of 10,000 villagers.

=== Expansion and outcomes ===
In the first 25 years, the project expanded to a region of over 250,000 people. At its peak, CRHP worked with 178 villages. Outcomes were dramatic: [[infant mortality]] dropped from over 176 per 1,000 births to 23 per 1,000. Other health data also indicated substantial improvements in health in the project villages: 100% coverage of [[antenatal care]] for pregnant women and under 1% [[Undernutrition in children|child malnutrition]].<ref>Mann V., Eble A., Frost C., Premkumar R. and Boone P. (2010) Retrospective comparative evaluation of the lasting impact of a community-based primary health care programme on under-5 mortality in villages around Jamkhed, India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88: 727-736.</ref>

Over 40 years, CRHP has worked with 300 villages and over 500,000 people. The indirect impact of the organization is estimated to be at over 1 million people.<ref>Comprehensive Rural Health Project (2011) Annual Report.</ref>

==Death==
Mabelle Arole died in 1999. She and Rajanikant are survived by their children Ravi and Shobha.

== Publications ==
In 1989, the Aroles received a grant for two years to write a book about their experiences. Jamkhed, published in 1994, chronicles the work of CRHP from its inception.<ref>Arole, M. & Arole, R. (1994) Jamkhed - A Comprehensive Rural Health Project. Macmillan Press: London, UK.</ref> It has become a classic read for students and practitioners in the field of public health.

== References ==
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==External links==
*http://www.jamkhed.org/
*http://jamkhed.org/Readings/HealthAllSocMed.pdf{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*https://web.archive.org/web/20081130231053/http://www.prb.org/Articles/2007/LessonsLearnedCommunity-BasedProject.aspx
*[https://archive.today/20130103202648/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-26/lucknow/30203546_1_social-health-activist-jamkhed-magsaysay-award ]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120522024541/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/10/09-064469/en/ ]
*http://www.aarogya.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3112&pop=1&page=0
*http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/community-doctors/rosenberg-text/

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