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Health Camps for weavers'
communities in rural India
JAIPUR & its partners offer
regular free medical services to villagers below poverty
line
 Sunday,
13th November 2011, JAIPUR Rugs Foundation (JRF) and SMD
Hospital, one of the biggest private hospitals in the
capital of Rajasthan state, have organized a one-day health
camp in Maid village near Jaipur city and have assisted more
than 500 poor people with free medical services.
More than 1000 people present in the camp, 15 doctors and
health professional volunteers and 501 poor people who were
offered more than eight types of medical services: this was
the impact of the third health camp organized in 2011 by
JAIPUR Rugs Foundation and two of its partners: Jaipur Rugs
Company and SMD Hospital. 200 of the patients who received
free medicines, token cards for free chirurgical
interventions or medical consultations were JAIPUR weavers
which craft high-quality rugs and carpets for home makers in
25 countries.
“JAIPUR's mission is to empower artisans in the carpet
industry while connecting them with global markets through
high-quality products they create, but for this empowerment
to be sustainable, in the reality of rural communities,
there is first a need to improve the quality of life of
people living in rural India. This health camp is part of
JAIPUR's efforts to improve the socio-economic status of the
artisans through partnering with stakeholders for
educational, health or rural development programs.” explains
Yogesh Chaudhary, Director at JAIPUR.
JRF is taking support from its stakeholders to organize 3-6
health camps a year for villagers below poverty line who
don`t have access to proper medical services and are living
in the communities of the 40,000 artisans of JAIPUR. One
month prior to each health camp, JRF deploys dedicated staff
to visit each and every house in the village where the camp
is going to be organized in order to extract the details of
the patients and to create awareness in the local language.
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