After the Haiti earthquake in January, Acupuncturists
Without Borders raised funds and sent eight volunteer teams to provide
approximately 4,500 trauma recovery treatments in Haiti under the
supervision of AWB Haiti Operations Manager Julia Raneri and Volunteer
Coordinator Diane Eggleston. When doctors, nurses, and other healthcare
providers saw how beneficial these treatments were for their patients,
they requested that AWB come and train them in this methodology.
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) had
also been
responding to Haiti by sending teams to set up clinics throughout the
nation. The AWB Board and staff was ...
Diana Fried, Executive Director,
Acupuncturists Without Borders
8,000 feet above the world, at a monastery
tucked into the foothills of the Himalayas, resident monks
and nuns emerge to greet us, a group of visiting acupuncturists from
the United States
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB)
recently returned
from a trip to Haiti, Feb. 3-7. The trip included myself, Julia Raneri
(AWB's Haiti Operations Manager), Kim Marin (an acupuncturist from
Florida), a doctor from Florida, reporter Mia McCormick and U.S.
businessman Jehan Heraux...
I was fortunate to be able to join AWB in
relief
efforts for the victims of the San Diego fires that burned for weeks in
October. The area I was positioned in was 60 miles southeast of metro
San Diego, and less then 5 miles from the Mexican border.
Elizabeth
Sommers has written an excellent summary of AWB’s data
collection project from Louisiana. Data compilation is still taking
place, but this is results analysis of the process so far.
Here's what
I believe:
Our collective response to humanitarian crises, as global citizens in
the 21st century, represents perhaps our greatest opportunity to heal
many of the roots of violence, and therefore, to sow the seeds of world
peace.
A couple of
weeks have passed since I have returned from New Orleans and I have now
had ample time to settle back into my life here in Santa Barbara. I
must admit that I was unprepared for the amount of decompression time
that it would take to look unequivocally at my experience in New Orleans
Acupuncturists
Without Borders held its very first meeting of the Board of Directors
over a sunny two days in Stone Ridge, New York on April 17 and 18...
Yesterday,
John MacDonald (who had come from Pennsylvania and had a nightmare
airport experience) was offered two minutes to speak to the Board. He
said: “It’s an awful long way to come for 2
minutes.” ...
By John
A. MacDonald, J.D., Director for Policy, Planning & Budget
March 1,
2006
To date,
our wonderful volunteers have provided over 4000 free treatments. The
number of acupuncturists that we have sent into Louisiana exceeds the
total number of people licensed to practice acupuncture in Louisiana ...
