Please help us support relief efforts in Haiti!
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) provides immediate disaster relief and recovery to communities that are in crisis resulting from disaster or human conflict. AWB is committed to creating alliances with local community based organizations and treating all who have been affected – survivors, first responders, emergency personnel and other care providers.
AWB uses community-style acupuncture to provide caring, compassionate treatment in a group setting. This model of treatment allows everyone treated to experience relief from stress and trauma together. When the entire group feels calm and quiet, hope, determination and resiliency rises powerfully within it.
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) and Pathways to Wellness (Pathways) have
come together in partnership to launch a relief response to the devastation in Haiti.
They are now mobilizing teams of volunteer acupuncturists to go to Haiti to provide assistance. Acupuncture treatments will help heal trauma and provide general body-mind-spirit healing. In most disaster situations, acupuncturists can be of greatest support beginning several weeks after the disaster, once the people most affected have water, shelter, food, and immediate medical care. When these emergency needs are taken care of, the next critical need is for the people who have been traumatized to be able to function once again physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
They are intending to be on the ground sometime in February and will send out email updates regularly to let you know of their progress. They are now looking for DONATIONS and VOLUNTEERS to travel to Haiti, as well as to help organize and coordinate the relief effort from within the United States. Certified and Licensed acupuncturists and National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) trained Acupuncture Detoxification Specialists (ADS) who are interested in volunteering in Haiti are welcome to apply.
For more information, please read their press release here or e-mail: acaggianelli@pathwaysboston.org