AWB News
AWB Provides Free Treatments for Refugees, Asylum Seekers & Deported Vets in Tijuana
We've been very busy in the past month, bringing acupuncture and other healing treatments to asylum seekers and refugees at the US-Mexico border. AWB volunteers offered treatments in Brownsville, TX-Matamoros, Mexico over the weekend of January 24th-26th, and a team...
Puerto Rico Relief Update – Clinic #3
Report from Puerto Rico's earthquake zone: AWB clinic #3 Penuelas 02/01/2020 From AWB Trip Leader Ramon Serrano: It's when the sun goes down that the terror begins. Another sleepless night for the 171 people still living under tarps in the makeshift community inside...
AWB Veterans’ Clinic Treats Deported Vets in Tijuana
The InnSpot, a veteran-owned clinic in Sand Diego affiliated with AWB''s Military Stress Recovery Project, brought trauma-healing treatments to deported US military veterans on Saturday, January 18th. InnSpot coordinator/owner Guy Page, himself a veteran, organized a...
AWB’s Trauma Healing in Puerto Rico Continues
PUERTO RICO EARTHQUAKE RELIEF UPDATE #2...from Ramon Serrano, AWB Clinic Coordinator in Puerto Rico: Clinic #2 Yauco, Puerto Rico January 18th, 2020 Click here to read about our first clinic. Our second venture into the earthquake zone coincided with a health fair...
AWB Provides Treatments to Puerto Ricans after Earthquakes
This is an update from Ramon Serrano, L.Ac., who coordinates AWB service work in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria. He is reporting from Guayanilla, Puerto Rico - January 11, 2020. On my way to Guayanilla at 8 am, another tremor measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale...
AWB returns to Matamoros, MX to treat refugees
Please check out this USA Today article written about this trip. This report comes from Diana Fried, Founder & Co-Executive Director, who just returned from Matamoros: Just back from Matamoros, Mexico, an area where the bridge between the US and Mexico meets land....
USA Today documents AWB Work at the Texas/Mexico border
USA Today joined us on our latest trip to the border. Please check out their full report HERE! You can help support our ongoing work with refugees, immigrants and community volunteers by making a donation here.
2019 Military Stress Recovery Project Update
Download the PDF of this update here! Since 2006, Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) has trained over 6,000 licensed acupuncturists to offer trauma-healing treatments to people affected by disaster and human conflict. Many AWB-trained practitioners have gone on to...
Update on AWB California Border Project
Since January 2019, AWB has been working at the US-Mexico border to bring trauma healing treatments to migrating people and community volunteers. Our work began in Texas, and has expanded to California, where AWB volunteers have taken two week-long service trips since...
Volunteers Needed for Sonoma County Fires
AWB & Integrative Healers Action Network (IHAN) are looking for licensed/certified integrative medicine and health practitioners with malpractice insurance AND administrative support staff to volunteer at an Integrative Health Clinic we are setting up inside the...
AWB Begins Support for Migrating People at the California-Mexico Border
Mobile integrative treatment team from the Refugee Health Alliance, including AWB volunteers, at Jardins de Mariposa, a shelter for LGBT asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico (August 2019) AWB volunteers Julia Raneri, Meg McDowell, Jennifer Trombley, and Carla Cassler...
Holistic Primary Care Reports on AWB’s Border Work
The publication, Holistic Primary Care, has published a fantastic article outlining AWB's work at the Texas/Mexico Border. AWB member Nam-Thu Tran initiated this relief effort right after taking our Healing Community Trauma course. Please read and share!...