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How you can help HealthWrights!
HELP
NEEDED! ..HealthWrights is continuing
its development of an important resource: the 'Politics
of Health Knowledge Network' (see www.politicsofhealth.org
) To make this Knowledge Network an more
effective tool for change, we need input and assistance
from from contributors and volunteers from around the world
in a wide range of sectors. To learn about how you can submit
content on specific themes, or help in other ways, go to
the new site: www.politicsofhealth.org
Or contact Jason Weston at jason@healthwrights.org
HealthWrights is also in need of part-time volunteers
who can help with:
- Secretarial assistance (transcribing letters, etc.),
- Layout and mailing of newsletters,
- Editing and proofreading of manuscripts (topics: health,
disability, human rights),
- Promotion and distribution of books,
- Organization of Politics
of Health Library,
- Networking,
- Contribution of new, important facts, data, and statistics
to our Politics
of Health Knowledge Network,
- Advertising and recruiting for the Intensive
Conversational Spanish Course taught by disabled persons
at PROJIMO
- Fund raising.
- We also need a volunteer to help with the coding to make
this page available for people with disabilities.
We are in need of donations of money for:
- Gratis book fund (for Third World health workers, etc.),
- New book development,
- Production/distribution of Newsletter
from the Sierra Madre (reaches 130 countries),
- Networking, technical assistance, and information exchange
with 3rd World community-based health and disability groups.
- Development of the Politics of Health Knowledge Network
(www.politicsofhealth.org)
For PROJIMO
(Program of Disabled Youth in Western Mexico) and other
related programs
Supplies and equipment:
- Knee joints and struts of orthopedic appliances,
- Wheelchairs,
- Hand tools and electric tools for woodworking (drills,
scroll saws, band saw, sanders, etc.),
- COMPUTERS:
IBM-type laptop, portable or compact computers (for the
PROJIMO computer skills training program and for individual
disabled children and youth. Also printers.
- Portable electric typewriters (for children with cerebral
palsy),
- Stethoscope and blood pressure cuff.
- Old above-the-knee artificial legs (for reuse of knee
joints and feet),
| Please help us get knee-joints from discarded artificial
limbs and orthopedic appliances. By using second-hand
donated knee joints the PROJIMO team can make high quality
limbs and braces at low cost for poor families. So please
help us to RECYCLE ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT. |
Volunteer assistance:
- Skilled crafts persons to volunteer to help upgrade skills
in the toy-making shop,
- Persons driving or flying to Mazatlan, Mexico, who can
help take down supplies,
- Rehabilitation experts in different fields who could teach
their skills during short term visits to PROJIMO,
- Translator from Spanish to English and English to Spanish,
- Craftsperson/Toymaker/Carpenter—to help PROJIMO's toy
shop upgrade the quality of its wood puzzles and toys, and
to develop new markets for income generation.
$$$ Donations:
Right now we are is especially great need of funds for:
We also need funding assistance:
- To help cover the costs of services and equipment for
those who cannot afford them,
- To help disabled persons set up small workshops (wood-working,
leather work, welding, etc.) in order to generate income.
Spanish Course:
- Sign up to study spoken Spanish
in an informal but intensive training program taught by
physically disabled young people at PROJIMO.
- HELP RECRUIT STUDENTS FOR
THE INTENSIVE CONVERATIONAL SPANISH COURSE.
SPREAD THE WORD. ANNOUNCE THE COURSE IN YOUR NEWSLETTER
OR ON BULLETIN BOARDS. Help distribute flyers (Click
here to download flyers!)----In this way you can help
PROJIMO and its disabled instructors become more self-sufficient:
Order
books, newsletters, toys, bird paintings, etc. from HealthWrights.
If you are able to help with any of the above activities,
or to make a donation, contact us at:
help@healthwrights.org
HealthWrights
964 Hamilton Ave.
Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA
Tel: 650-325-7500; Fax: 650-325-1080
Donations are tax deductible when made out to HealthWrights.
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