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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #85 | September 2019

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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #85 – July 2019 Please visit our website http://www.healthwrights.org Announcing a new book by David Werner: Reports from the Sierra Madre Stories behind the health handbook Where There Is No Doctor David Werner and HealthWrights (Workgroup for People’s Health and Rights) are very excited to announce the release of this new book, Reports from the Sierra Madre. This is the backstory, the real-time day-to-day journals and reports of what David experienced in the backcountry of Western Mexico, living and working side-by-side with the campesinos. Richly illustrated with hundreds of photographs as well as line drawings … Continue reading Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #85 | September 2019

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Urgent request for electric wheelchairs

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December 2018 While the PROJIMO community-based rehab programs run by disabled villagers in Mexico make individualized wheelchairs for children and adults who need them, some of the leaders and former workers in these programs now need electric wheelchairs. Please help provide them if you can. Companions in pressing need for an electric wheelchair include: 1) Virginia Gonzalez Virginia, who was born with brittle-bone disease (osteogenisis imperfecta), first came to the PROJIMO (Program for Rehabilitation Organized by Disabled Youth of Western Mexico) when she was 4 years old. Years later she became a worker at PROJIMO, running the program’s cybercafe and … Continue reading Urgent request for electric wheelchairs

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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #84 | March 2019

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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #84 – March 2019 click here for the http://www.healthwrights.org homepage Inclusion of the Most Excluded – ‘The Power of String’ Update on the Buddy Home Care initiative, Ubon, Thailand by David Werner On a visit … Continue reading Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #84 | March 2019

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Boletín de la Sierra Madre #82 | Enero 2018

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Boletín de la Sierra Madre #82 – Enero 2018 haga clic aquí para la página de inicio de Healthwrights Discapacitados adictos-en-recuperación se unen Un nuevo programa servicial en México facilitado por Personas discapacitadas recuperándose del hábito de drogas por David … Continue reading Boletín de la Sierra Madre #82 | Enero 2018

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Boletín de la Sierra Madre #83 | Abril de 2018

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Haga clic aquí para acceder a la página de inicio de http://www.healthwrights.org homepage Los cojines de cartón ayudan a curar las llagas de presión persistentes. por David Werner (Traducido al español por Juan Ignacio Gómez Iruretagoyena) El Boletín #83 es, … Continue reading Boletín de la Sierra Madre #83 | Abril de 2018

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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #83 | April 2018

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Habilítate Mazatlán is a modest service program run by disabled recovering drug-users. Among the services they provide is building – out of old cardboard – custom-made special seating for disabled children. Here we describe a related challenge the group has taken on: crafting custom-molded cardboard cushions to help heal chronic pressure sores…. We share this story because it conveys a great unmet potential. If more people and programs would make use of this low-cost handicraft, myriad dire complications, and premature deaths from pressure sores could be prevented. Continue reading Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #83 | April 2018

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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #82 | January 2018

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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #82 – January 2018 click here for the http://www.healthwrights.org homepage Disabled Recovering Drug-Addicts United A new service program run by disabled recovering drug-users in Mexico by David Werner In Mexico today, widespread use of addictive … Continue reading Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #82 | January 2018

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Boletín de la Sierra Madre #81 | Septiembre de 2017

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haga clic aquí para la página de inicio de Healthwrights PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD EN AMBIENTE DE CONTRADICCIONES: Innovaciones en Tailandia para satisfacer las necesidades de los más vulnerables por David Werner Mi invitación a Tailandia En mayo del 2017 fui invitado por la Fundación Salud y Compartir (HSF, las siglas en inglés) en Tailandia, y su organización madre SHARE (con sede en Japón), para visitar su innovador programa de alcance comunitario en la provincia de Ubon-Rachathani, en la frontera entre Tailandia y Laos. El objetivo de mi visita fue intercambiar ideas para “ayudar a las personas y grupos más … Continue reading Boletín de la Sierra Madre #81 | Septiembre de 2017

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Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #80 | December 2016

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click here for the http://www.healthwrights.org homepage Namesakes resulting from Where There is No Doctor Since I first wrote and illustrated Where There is No Doctor in Spanish, in mountain villages of Western Mexico in the early 1970s, the book has been translated into at least 100 languages (that we know of), with more than three million copies in print. According to the the World Health Organization, it has become “the most widely used community health care handbook in the world.” We have received letters of appreciation from health workers and families in scores of different countries, often with stories of … Continue reading Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #80 | December 2016