Mabelle Arole
Indian health activist
Mabelle Arole, born 26 December 1935 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, is a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership with her husband, Raj Arole, for their Comprehensive Rural Health Project.
Early life
Arole was the second of three children of Rajappan D. Immanuel, a professor of New Testament Greek at Jabalpur's theological seminary, and Beatrice Gunaratnampillai. Her parents were first cousins and third-generation Methodists. Mabelle married Rajinikant Arole.
Work
Mabelle met Rajanikant Arole at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, from which they graduated in 1959 with honors. Married on 26 April 1960, they vowed to devote their lives to caring for the marginalized in rural areas. The Aroles worked at a mission hospital in Vadala, 320 kilometers east of Mumbai, from 1962 to 1966. They then spent four years in the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship to obtain residency training in medicine and surgery and 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 conceived of CRHP to provide community-based primary health care and development to poor and marginalized communities in rural India.
Returning to India after their studies, the Aroles decided to work in Jamkhed: a poor, drought-prone taluka.
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