World Medicine - Acupuncture in Action
World Medicine is a registered UK charity providing acupuncture to people suffering the effects of trauma, disaster or poverty.
Welcome to World Medicine
World Medicine - Acupuncture in Action - offers humanitarian aid 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 in offering practitioner experience, overseas and UK based programmes, recruiting volunteers, and raising funds for current and future projects. We raise fund for these and to support UK based acupuncturists to run their own projects through our grant scheme.
Please browse around the website to find out more about our work, our projects, those we help, our volunteers, and how you too can help our work by giving your time and by giving us financial support.
Thank you for your interest in the work of World Medicine, thank you for visiting and thank you for your support.
News
November 2024
Saturday 23rd November was a great day for World Medicine. 6 acupuncturists and 5 translators met in London to plan for our January 2025 visit to Chaparda. There were familiar faces- Barbara, Teresa, Emma, Najma, Zehra, Kuman and Sheela. We are very grateful for their continued commitment and passion for our world medicine project in India. It’s an intense 3 weeks of hard work but also incredibly rewarding and often fun! This year we are joined by acupuncturists Neena, Nina and Sara, with Aparna who is our new translator. We are delighted to have each one of them on board and hope they will find it as rewarding as we do. Watch out for new Instagram posts in January if you are interested in following our project!
In other news the trustees of World Medicine are delighted to welcome on board new trustee Teresa Dawkes. Teresa brings a wealth of experience to the role as in addition to working with us for 3 years now she has volunteered in Uganda many times in her NHS role. More about Teresa soon!
