International Acu/TCM aid organizations
Suggested Resources | January 18, 2012
Below is a list of links to TCM/acupuncture international aid organizations or projects. Some of these are actively looking for practitioner volunteers, while others are interested mostly in monetary donations. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please feel free to contact the library with suggestions of other organizations to add!
- Acupuncture Ambassadors - www.acupunctureambassadors.org (new address! updated 3/21/12)
- Acupuncture Relief Project – http://www.acupuncturereliefproject.org/
- Acupuncture Without Borders – http://www.acupuncture-sfi.org/Home.htm (click on English option on the left-hand menu)
- Guatemala Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project (GUAMAP) – http://www.guamap.net/
- Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Acupuncture Project (JETAP) – http://japanesetsunamiaid.blogspot.com/
- Mindful Medicine Worldwide (MMW) – http://www.mindfulmedicineworldwide.org/Blogs/Default.aspx?n=Volunteer%20Blogs
- Moxafrica – http://www.moxafrica.org/index.html
- National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) – www.acudetox.com/nada-protocol/nada-advocacy.html (No formal international aid program, but they do advocacy work to encourage practitioners to address unmet healthcare needs – see http://acudetox.com/guidepoints/news-from-guidepoints/100-gaza-residents-empowered-to-treat-trauma-.html for an example of one of these projects)
- Pan African Acupuncture Project – http://www.panafricanacupuncture.org/
- TCM - Social Forum – http://www.tcm-sozialforum.org/index.php?lang=en (has closest thing to a list of projects/organizations, though it is incomplete and skewed more towards organizations working out of Germany or other European countries)