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<!--emo&:ind--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/india.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='india.gif' /><!--endemo--> Indian NGO chosen for US award
[ 26 Aug, 2006 0802hrs ISTPTI ]
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WASHINGTON: An Indian NGO from Maharashtra is among nine organisations, which have been selected by a well known US foundation for the first MacArthur awards for Creative and Effective Institutions.
The awardees, chosen from five countries by the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, will be honoured at a function in Chicago on October 5.
The Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH) of Maharashtra will get the award of USD 300,000 (about Rs 1.35 crores) for running one of the most successful programmes that trains women in villages to diagnose newborns as well as in educating mothers.
Based in the poorest semi-tribal district of Gadchiroli in the state of Maharashtra, SEARCH offers public health programmes serving 86 villages with a total population of 100,000.
"During a seven-year period, the programme reduced the neo-natal mortality rate by 70 percent, post-partum maternal morbidity by nearly 50 percent, and the need for emergency obstetrical care by 30 per cent," the Foundation has said in a press statement.
The MacArthur award will also help support a new research centre to study maternal morbidity and young people's sexual and reproductive health in India.
The MacArthur foundation, well known for its MacArthur Fellows Programme, has a long history of building institutions from Human Rights Watch, now the largest US-based human rights organization, to the World Resources Institute, the environmental think tank.
[ 26 Aug, 2006 0802hrs ISTPTI ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
WASHINGTON: An Indian NGO from Maharashtra is among nine organisations, which have been selected by a well known US foundation for the first MacArthur awards for Creative and Effective Institutions.
The awardees, chosen from five countries by the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, will be honoured at a function in Chicago on October 5.
The Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH) of Maharashtra will get the award of USD 300,000 (about Rs 1.35 crores) for running one of the most successful programmes that trains women in villages to diagnose newborns as well as in educating mothers.
Based in the poorest semi-tribal district of Gadchiroli in the state of Maharashtra, SEARCH offers public health programmes serving 86 villages with a total population of 100,000.
"During a seven-year period, the programme reduced the neo-natal mortality rate by 70 percent, post-partum maternal morbidity by nearly 50 percent, and the need for emergency obstetrical care by 30 per cent," the Foundation has said in a press statement.
The MacArthur award will also help support a new research centre to study maternal morbidity and young people's sexual and reproductive health in India.
The MacArthur foundation, well known for its MacArthur Fellows Programme, has a long history of building institutions from Human Rights Watch, now the largest US-based human rights organization, to the World Resources Institute, the environmental think tank.