Barefoot Acupuncture Movement

FREE MASTER CLASS!
9/22 Thu 5pm MDT
Featuring Ryan Bemis from Barefoot Acupuncture Movement at the Border

Hosted by the Pacific College of Health and Science. RSVP here!
https://www.pacificcollege.edu/news/calendar/acupuncture-holistic-healing-in-under-served-populations-master-class-series

Also you will meet:
Carla Cassler from Acupuncturists Without Borders
Juan Cortez from NY Harm Reduction Educators
Hear about their work in Tijuana, the West Bank of Israel/Palestine, and Harlem, working empowering communities with border refugees, in areas of conflict, and with harm reduction with substance use disorder clients.

Our project sprouted through the support of Catholic Workers Peter Hinde and Sister Betty Campbell of Casa Tabor. This quote is by Dorothy Day, who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement, a project of hospitality for and solidarity with the poor. Our work uses needles to facilitate hospitality and solidarity.

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city. They are training other women how to offer acupuncture, as well.

Celebrating the power of working class women with needles this month, you can support their work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com