Help Ukrainian Refugees Access Mental Health!

Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) is actively organizing support for people being forced to flee Ukraine including Ukrainian citizens, students and migrants from other countries, and refugees from Africa and the Middle East who once again have to find safe haven.

This is a major crisis, and it means an expansion of AWB’s trauma relief work with displaced populations in places like Haiti, Mexico and Greece. As we mobilize, we need and appreciate our community’s continued support to bring the medicine of peace to people escaping war and violence.

Since March 2022, AWB has helped build a network of trained health practitioners in the European Union and UK that are providing trauma-informed care to refugees from Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa. AWB has:

• Hosted online trainings for over 500 European and UK practitioners on how to use NADA, Battlefield Acupuncture, and scalp acupuncture for trauma-healing. We have collaborated with wonderful partners to provide these trainings, including the ETCMA, certified NADA trainers, Dr. Richard Niemtzow and Dr. Song Niemtzow, and the TCM Kongress (Germany). 
• Organized field teams in Netherlands, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Norway, Greece and Germany to provide direct trauma-informed care (pop up and mobile clinics). We continue to mentor and support these teams and are committed to long-term program development.
•  Completed two in-depth in-person trainings for EU-UK team leaders and other practitioners, one in Berlin and one in Athens (where AWB-Greece coordinated the training). 
• Gathered and distributed thousands of needles, ASP needles, ear seeds, and other clinical supplies to our European colleagues, as well as getting supplies to medical acupuncturists inside Ukraine.

 Thank you for your amazing support of this cause. We could not have gotten this far without you. The road ahead is still long. We hope to raise $1 Million USD overall in order to scale our refugee program worldwide to be able to coordinate support effectively and provide 1 million treatments over the next 2 years! That's how much we were able to do in our first 10 years! Please consider continuing to support this work by sharing links to our project page, becoming a member, or becoming a recurring donor today! 

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

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