Healing communities. Building resiliency.
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) was founded in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina to provide free acupuncture for trauma relief to communities in crisis. Since then, we have grown into an international organization working at the intersection of disaster relief, social justice, and community resilience.
Over the past two decades, AWB teams have responded to disasters across the U.S. and around the globe, offering trauma-informed integrative care after hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and mass shootings. Internationally, we have collaborated with local partners in Haiti, Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Nepal, Israel, the West Bank, Mexico, and beyond, always responding by invitation and working side by side with community leaders.
In 2006, AWB started the Military Stress Recovery Project to treat the thousands of veterans, active duty military, and their families, impacted by conflicts since World War II. This has evolved into our Community Service Clinic Project which provides ongoing trauma-informed care for refugees, migrating people, agricultural workers, people impacted by violence, and other under-resourced communities.
AWB has trained nearly 10,000 acupuncturists and other health care workers to amplify and expand this work, the "Medicine of Peace", across the globe.
At the heart of our work is a simple, powerful idea: healing happens in community. When people gather in safe, supportive spaces and receive care together, stress and trauma ease, hope returns, and resilience grows.
