From: World Medicine, York
To: Jay Ambe Hospital, Chaparda
How:
GOAL
DISTANCE: 5686.2mi
TIME: 364days
See how everyone has been contributing to the mission.
World Medicine - Acupuncture in Action - offers relief from pain and trauma where it is most needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or gender in order to strengthen and support local communities.
The journey began in 2005 when a team of 21 complementary therapists went out to help victims of the Asian Tsunami.
Today, we are more active than ever through UK and internationally based projects, raising funds for current and future work, recruiting and developing new volunteers and providing further opportunities for senior practitioners to deepen their experience.
Our longest running international programme is in Chaparda, Gujarat, India, where we have run an annual clinic for many years. Based at the Jay Ambe Hospital we have regularly taken a team of acupuncturists and translators, treating thousands of local people over the years and building lasting friendships with our host charity and helpers.
This year, however, we were unable to go due to the pandemic so we're going to make a virtual journey to see them instead! We're walking from our HQ in Yorkshire, England all the way to the door of the Jay Ambe hospital - a distance of 5,686 miles.
Feel free to join one of our teams and take part yourself, or support them with a donation, which will be used to develop the work of World Medicine in the UK and internationally.
Thank you for your support and wish us luck!
£6,634 raised since 4 Apr 2021.
By supporting the World Medicine Charitable Trust you will help to provide:
Needles, moxa, masks, sharps bins and clinic consumables for our clinics in the UK and abroad (in 2020 we used 30,000+ needles in the 3 week Chaparda clinic)
Coaching and guidance for acupuncturists and other health professionals to enable them to volunteer at our specialised clinics
Guidance and training for translators to enable us to work with different languages and cultures
Develop avenues of engagement in support of current projects, where messages of diet, exercise and wellbeing are being offered in a region of low literacy.
The development of new projects and encouragement of volunteers new to World Medicine.
Thank you for anything you can give - it is all very much appreciated.
TEAM: Tigers
42.25 mi
22 Mar 2022
Distance walked since last entry on 15th of February.
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