community-based medicine
Submitted by aswin on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 14:57.
Project Rural India Social and Health Improvement (RISHI; www.projectrishi.org), founded in March 2005, is a student-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based at the University of California, Los Angeles. Our mission is to provide for the basic health care and infrastructure needs of Indian villages.
We have started with Vadamanappakkam, a village in South India and have addressed several issues there. First, we built a concrete enclosure for a playground to protect children from wild animals and trespassers.