Native Acupuncture Project
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We are a small group of Native Acupuncturists, herbalists and healers who are working to improve the health and healthcare of other Indigenous people through acupuncture and traditional medicine with our emerging nonprofit, the Native Acupuncture Project.
Since March of 2014 we have gone out to Acoma Pueblo over a dozen times to offer free treatments to community members, and members of the diabetes program there. Each time we go out, we treat more community members, recently we were able to treat 18 people in one morning.
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Native Americans are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as caucasians, and according to the CDC Native Americans have 20% higher rates of heart disease than any other population group. Yet healthcare services in rural areas are quite limited.
With a small bag of supplies, we can do so much to help improve the health of reservation based Native Americans. We need your help! We volunteer our time and services at least once a month, but we need help covering costs of things like gas, sharps containers, rubbing alcohol, needles, and cotton swabs. As time goes on, we will expand to providing treatments for other Pueblos, Reservations and Indigenous communities. Can you help?
Even $30 will cover the gas for one of our trips!
Since March of 2014 we have gone out to Acoma Pueblo over a dozen times to offer free treatments to community members, and members of the diabetes program there. Each time we go out, we treat more community members, recently we were able to treat 18 people in one morning.
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Native Americans are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as caucasians, and according to the CDC Native Americans have 20% higher rates of heart disease than any other population group. Yet healthcare services in rural areas are quite limited.
With a small bag of supplies, we can do so much to help improve the health of reservation based Native Americans. We need your help! We volunteer our time and services at least once a month, but we need help covering costs of things like gas, sharps containers, rubbing alcohol, needles, and cotton swabs. As time goes on, we will expand to providing treatments for other Pueblos, Reservations and Indigenous communities. Can you help?
Even $30 will cover the gas for one of our trips!
Organizer
Arlo Starr
Organizer
Los Lunas, NM
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