Urmul Rural Health Research and Development Trust Revenue and Competitors

In the harsh and inhospitable regions of rural Rajasthan in the Thar Desert, Urmul Group of Organizations have been innovating models for inducing community driven socio developmental changes by devising programmes, strengthening them, sustaining and finally handing them over to communities. Urmul's work is guided by the spirit and trust placed in people' s capabilities to bring about the much-needed social change with their own efforts. Most of the work is focused on vulnerable and marginalized sections of the society –Woman and children. Following the integrated development approaches, Urmul works on most of the SDGs. We adopt service delivery platforms, advocacy and lobbying tools for empowering the marginalized and vulnerable sections of society in over 1000 villages in this desert state of India-thematically working on Health, Education, Livelihood, Environment, Mother-Child care et al. Since the very beginning in 1984, Urmul has been working on health issues extensively. It was pioneer in organising, training and coordinating thousands of Community Health Workers in this desert region facing extreme hardships in health service delivery. Food, Fodder and Water securities are major concerns including and disaster mitigation. Women's socio-economic empowerment, capacity building, improving access to basic services, education, early child care & development, and child right issues are few concerns addressed. Urmul recognizes and acknowledges the strength of youth and their role in development of any society and collaborates with a network of over thousands of youth for their capacity building using awareness and right-based approaches. We work across verticals ranging from Governments and INGOs to Panchayati Raj institutions, Self-Help-Groups and other Civil Society Organizations. Collaborating with hundreds of village Panchayat in desert region of Rajasthan. Thousands of families have been partners of various programmes through the last thirty- five year