After Healer2Healer‘s successful multi-day clinic at our Ollantaytambo office, the time had come to journey to Patacancha. We had invited all of our promotoras (community health workers) to an event at which the Healer2Healer practitioners would demonstrate and teach each of their three modalities (massage, acupuncture, and reiki) and the promorotas would in turn demonstrate…
Month: August 2013
Keep Calm and Carry On!
Last week, Sacred Valley Health welcomed the group Healer2Healer to Ollantaytambo. Healer2Healer is US-based non-profit that provides “international cultural exchange and service learning in rural indigenous communities for acupuncturists, reiki practitioners, and students.” H2H ran a series of clinics providing acupuncture, massage and reiki in the communities we serve, and they also shared their skills…
Promotoras attend their 11th training with Sacred Valley Health
This month’s training – our promotoras’ (community health workers’) 11th – was a repaso (review) of the previous three trainings. The themes reviewed in this capacitacion were Cuidado de Los Gestantes (Care of the Pregnant Woman), Medicinas Naturales (Natural Medicines), and Dolor de La Espalda (Back Pain). Yet again, the promotoras performed impressively; using their…
August 2013 SVH Newsletter
August 2013 SVH Newsletter Check out the most recent Sacred Valley Health newsletter by visiting the link provided. Thank you for your continued support of Sacred Valley Health! For those of you who would like to practice your Spanish reading and comprehension skills by reading our newsletter in Español, feel free to click the “translate”…
Household Surveying and Mapping in Palomare and Olmiron!
Last weekend, SVH continued to map and collect data in the communities of Palomare and Olmiron. As Community Coordinator Lucy explained in last week’s post, the household surveys enable us to identify the needs of the communities we serve and to meet those needs by training our promotoras (community health workers) in relevant skills. We…
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