Support for Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India and hospitals working in partnership with CMC Vellore. Friends of Vellore UK seek to help CMC to ensure that everyone can receive appropriate medical treatment regardless of their ability to pay. We raise funds to support healthcare, education and development projects that benefit the poorest and most excluded communities.
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1Friends of Vellore’s projects are aimed at promoting health and welfare of the poor and marginalised. We want to help CMC to ensure that everyone can receive appropriate medical treatment regardless of their ability to pay. We also seek to help CMC in their efforts to help local communities to lift themselves out of poverty. We are funding healthcare workers in the Vellore slums and in the tribal area of the Jawadhi Hills. We are also funding young people from these areas to train in healthcare. The elderly welfare centres we fund not only benefit the elderly who attend, but also provide employment for local women and educate the community on the importance of caring for the elderly.
In addition to our ongoing projects, this year we have sent significant funds to CMC Vellore and nine of its associated mission hospitals to go towards the Covid costs they have incurred during the pandemic.
Our latest appeal which was launched in December 2021 is raising funds to enable CMC to build a labour ward in the tribal area of the Jawadhi Hills. In this rural area it is often dangerous to give birth and it can take over 12 hours to reach medical help. The maternal unit will seek to try to address the high maternal and infant mortality rates there.
