Help support acupuncture clinical skill building and vital healthcare in Nepal!

Founder’s note: Hey folks, this post is from a NCNM graduate who is going to be participating in the Acupuncture Relief Project in Nepal. She asked that I help her drum up funding for her endeavor – a very worthy cause. She’s going to be contributing some content about the project and her experience, starting with this post. Please give to her cause, if you can, and tell your friends!   Dear Chinese Medicine Central Readers, In early January 2015, I will leave my husband, two young children, a sweet German Shepherd and a cozy home. I will load a backpack aboard a flight in Portland, Oregon that will land in Kathmandu. When I arrive in Nepal, it will be the first time I’ve ever set foot in a developing country and only the second time that I’ve ever left the U.S. A day or two after landing, I will spend four to five hours being driven through rough and beautiful terrain, along the steep roads in the Makwanpur District. Ultimately, I will arrive in Kogate (Ko*Got*Tay), a small village committee that represents the 40,000 people who live in the region. In Kogate, I will be joining four other East Asian medicine practitioners. Together, we will be providing the only healthcare available for the thousands of people who live in the area. We will be housed in a few buildings that the Village Development Committee has kindly set aside for the purpose. We will live and work without electricity, heat or running water. Over the course of the next eight weeks, ...
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