ACUPUNCTURE WITHOUT BORDERS

why acupuncture ?

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Acupuncture is a particularly meaningful therapeutic technique in developing countries, for a number of reasons:

•   It has both preventive and curative effects.
• It enables healthcare practitioners – doctors, nurses, medical assistants and midwives (depending on local regulations) – to be much more self-reliant.
• Acupuncture allows significant savings in medicines, which in developing countries are often expensive or difficult to obtain.
• Humanitarian assistance through acupuncture is also inexpensive, since its total cost is basically limited to the following items:
  
• Transport, food and lodging expenses for volunteer trainers,
• Cost of teaching material,
• Cost of acupuncture supplies.
  
•   Such humanitarian assistance is of great value to the local economy and helps to reduce dependence on outside help.
• Thus the teaching of acupuncture contributes to the preservation of human dignity among the recipients of aid.