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IMPORTANT: Notice on the Newsletter becoming an Internet publication:
October, 2007

David Werner has been reporting on his groundbreaking health and disability initiatives through this Newsletter since 1967, and we are happy to continue publishing it. The confluence of two significant factors have prompted our recent decision to become primarily an online Internet publication.

First, in April, 2007, the U.S. postal service discontinued international surface mailing entirely. (For our domestic mailing we still can use our inexpensive nonprofit surface rate.) Although we appreciate the speed of air mail, at $2.70 per overseas Newsletter, ($1.31 for Canada and $1.55 for Mexico) the cost is prohibitive, especially since much of our international readership cannot afford to subscribe.

Second, on a fragile planet with finite resources, we have been very concerned about the use of paper (albeit recycled paper), as well as the fuel required to transport these newsletters to 130 countries around the world.

Fortunately, more and more people and groups have Internet access, making this change feasible. However, many people and groups do not have access, or adequate bandwidth, to download the newsletter. Therefore, a small number of printed Newsletters will be available to those who cannot download it.

IMPORTANT: We need your e-mail address to send e-mail notifications of upcoming issues! Be sure to provide us with all e-mail addresses you wish us to notify. Please send a request to newsletter@healthwrights.org.

We would appreciate your continued subscription payment to help us offset production costs, and to continue sending the Newsletter to persons and groups—primarily in poor countries—who lack Internet access and cannot pay to subscribe.

Printable versions of the Newsletters are in Adobe PDF format, readable with free software from the Adobe website.

Newsletter 61: April, 2008 [PDF file -882 Kb ]

• “Health in Harmony”: A Program in Borneo that links Community and Environmental Health
• The tsunami
• Kinari picks my brain
• Epidemiology: Unusual patterns of disease
• Ecological Challenges: Rainforests and Peat swamps
• Biofuels, Carbon Credits, and a search for Solutions
• Visiting the Communities: Teaching and Learning
• Payment for healthcare with eco-friendly work
• Helping Ocu Walk
• New Book: The Wondrous Toy Workshop (See Insert)

Newsletter 60: December, 2007 [PDF file -702 Kb ]

• "Child-to-Child" with Disabled and Non-disabled Children in Michoacán, Mexico:
  An effort to make schooling more inclusive and enabling
• Structure and Itinerary of the Workshop
• Goals of the Child-to-Child Workshop
• Hands On Practice
• Discovering Innovative Ways to Include Disabled Children: “Community Diagnosis”
• Slide Shows of Street Theater
• Evaluation and Future Possibilities
• Prospects of Child-to-Child in School System
• PROJIMO Update (See Insert)

Insert for Newsletter 60: December 2007, includes PROJIMO Update and funding request [PDF file - 884 K b]

• The Paradoxes of Educational Reform in Michoacan
• The role of schools and teachers in building a Society For All
• Child-to-Child
• Integration of Disabled Children
• “Museo de la Basura” (Garbage Museum) in Morelia
• Choosing our Future

• Cuba's Creative Response to Hard Times
  • The Small Against the Mighty
  • Cuba's Amazing Health and Welfare Achievements
  • The Positive Outcomes of Hard Times
  • Consider Food and Water
  • Consider Medical Services and Biotechnology
  • Consider Population
  • Consider Community Health and "Power to the People"
  • What About AIDS in Cuba?
  • What We Could Learn from Cuba
• Update on PROJIMO

Newsletter 41: December 1999 [PDF file - 417 Kb]

• From Dispossession to Self-Determination in Australia's Outback
  • Declaration of Reconciliation
  • "A Good Life for Disabled and Old People in Australia's Remote Communities"
• Rescuing Rainforests and Flying Foxes on Australia's Cape York Peninsula
• Update on Projimo
• Projimo Update: Better Accessibility for Bus Travel
• Update on the People's Health Assembly

Newsletter 40: May 1999 [PDF file - 1 Mb]

• "Los Chavalitos" --A Unique Farm School in Rural Nicaragua: An Oasis of Learning in Balance with Nature
• CHILD-to-child Regional Workshop in Nicaragua: Helping One Another in Times of Stress
• Seats that Enable --Special Seating Seminar-Working in Culiacán, México
  • A seat to Enlarge the World of José
  • Juan de Dios --Riding Straight and Proud!
  • Encouraging Disabled Children in the Creative Process
• The Enabling Education Network (EENET)
• Plans for the People's Health Assembly in the Year 2000
• News from Programs and How You Can Help!

Newsletter 39: December 1998 [PDF file - 565 Kb]

• Projimo's Skills Training and Work Program Provides New Opportunities to Disabled and Jobless Youth
  • Children's Wheelchair Building Program
  • From Coffins to Dinning Sets--Projimo's Carpentry Program is off to a Good Start
  • Alejandro Apprentices in the Wheelchair Shop
• Four Women with Spinal Cord Injuries: Their Different Mobility Needs
  • A Wheelchair Carriage for Rough Terrain
• Update on the International People's Health Council (IPHC)
  • Alma Ata Revisited After 20 Years
• Launching the Japanese Translation of Questioning The Solution

Newsletter 38: September 1998 [PDF file - 385 Kb]

• Community Based Rehabilitation: Training Workshop at Projimo
• Story from the Projimo Workshop: Helping Eli Become More Independent
• A Seat to Help Daniela Gain Better Balance
• Singapore and the Management on Long Term Disability
• Building Bridges With Mentally Ill Persons
• Update on the International People's Health Council (IPHC)
• New Book: The New World Order: A Challenge to Health For All by the Year 2000

Newsletter 37: May 1998 [PDF file - 508 Kb]

• Disability and Poverty in the Philippines: Efforts of Families to Cope
• The Manila CBR Seminar Workshop
• Story From the Philippines: Girls With Brittle-Bone Disease from Mindanao and Mexico become Pen Pals
• Projimo Update: Better Accessibility for Bus Travel
• News and Activities from the International People's Health Council:
  • A surge of Interest in the Effects of Globalization on Health: IPHC and Questioning the Solution Ahead of Their Time
  • The New World Order: A Challenge to Health for All by the Year 2000 (new IPHC publication)
• Book Review: Questioning the Solution: Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival
• Global Warning: Watch for MAI: More power to Multinationals, Less to the People

Newsletter 36: December 1997 [PDF file - 1.29 Mb]

• Recreating Projimo to Meet Tougher Challenges
• Part 1: The Recent Wave of Crime, Kidnappings, and Violence in the Sierra Madre
• Part 2: Root Causes of the Crime Wave in Mexico and Elsewhere
• Part 3: Projimo's Response to the Wave of Violence
• Ways You Can Help Projimo's New Endeavors
• Nothing About Us Without Us Excerpts: Ways to work
• International People's Health Council, News and Activities
• Increasing Public Interest in Our New Book, Questioning The Solution

Newsletter 35: October 1997 [PDF file - 492 Kb]

• Striving for Balance: Health, Economics and the Natural World
• Nothing About Us Without Us Excerpts
• News and Activities of the International People's Health Council
• Yoshi-A Health Educator Who has Adapted Paulo Freire's Methodology to Japan
• Children in Cape Town Child-to-Child Initiative Provide an Update on their Activities
• Examples of Yoshi Ikezumi's Collection of Discussion-Starting Drawings

Newsletter 34: December 1996 [PDF file - 1.31 Mb]

• A Hands-on Learning Event in Brazil For Multipliers of Community-based Rehabilitation
• New Video and Guidebook: Child-to-child: at the Roots of Health
• A Forthcoming Book: Nothing about Us Without Us: Developing Innovative Technologies For, By, and with Disabled Persons
• Using Spasticity for Independent Living
• Four Children with Muscular Dystrophy Lead a Program For Disabled Children
• Appropriate Paper-based Technology

Newsletter 33: July 1996 [PDF file - 1.21 Mb]

• Sick of Violence: The Challenge for Child-to-child in South Africa
• From Village Health Worker to Child-to-child Guru: Martin Reyes Makes Good
• South Africa in Transition: Will the End of Apartheid Make Way for Social Justice?
• The Rapid Spread of Aids in South Africa
• The Globalization of Violence
• Need for a Total Ban on Landmines
• A Visit to Chile to Help Launch a New Book on the Struggle for Health and Dignity
• Oral Rehydration Therapy: A Simple Life-saving Technology — or Another Way of Exploiting the Poor?
• Our New Book about the Politics of Health and Child Survival

Newsletter 32: December 1995 [PDF file - 955 Kb]

• Karate For Fun (And Therapy) For Children With Cerebral Palsy
• Disabled People as Leaders in Meeting Their Own Needs
• Update on Child-to-child For Disabled Children: Projimo, Mexico
• Innovations By, With And For Spinal Cord Injured Persons in India
• The Social, Ecological, Cultural And Political Costs of Economic Globalization
• New Books Worth Reading
• Three New Translations/adaptations of Disabled Village Children
• A Call to Protest The Conservative Contract on America and its Children
• The Politics of Suffering

Newsletter 31: May 1995

• Classmates Help a Disabled Child Stay in School
• The Hidden Costs of Free Trade: Mexico Bites the Bullet
• Challenges of Transition for Disabled People in Russia
• Humanity as Commodity: the Hidden Agenda of the World Summit for Social Development
• The Copenhagen Alternative Declaration

Newsletter 30: December 1994

• Bad Air, Weak Blood, and Domination: African Women Confront Their Biggest Threats to Health
• News on Mexico
• Save Our State (California): From Proposition 187
• The World Bank: Turning Health into an Investment

Newsletter 29: June 1994

• Viva Zapata! How the Uprising in Chiapas Revitalized the Struggle for Health in Sinaloa
• Growth at All Costs: How current Global "Free Market" Policies Speed the Increase of the World's Population
• Update on PROJIMO
• Child-to-Child as a Transforming Educational Process
  

Newsletter 27: December 1992 [PDF file - 475Kb]

• Structural Adjustment of the Mexican Constitution
• The "North American Free Trade Agreement"? What will it Mean for Los-Income Mexicans and Americans?
  • The US View
  • The Mexican View
    • Wreaking havoc on Mexican Agriculture
  • The Concerns of American Workers
  • Environmental and health Consequences
  • Learning from Past Mistakes: Canada
  • A Viable Alternative?
    • Correcting Existing Inequalities
    • The Need for a Health and Social Charter
  • Resources on NAFTA
• New Legs for Nomads Notes: A Visit to Cuba

Newsletter 25: December 1991 [PDF file - 612Kb]

An update on recent developments at Project PROJIMO, featuring:

• its evolution from a program for disabled children into one for spinal cord injured young adults, many of whom come from Mexico’s growing subculture of drugs, alcohol, and violence.
• its continuing internal quest for equal rights and democracy.

Newsletter 18: October 1987 [PDF file - 214Kb]

• From Trees of Blood to Traffic of Drugs
• The Beginning of the End for One Village Family
• The Effects of Drug Growing on the Mountain People
• A Drug Lord's Revenge
• Health Workers Falsely Jailed
• Pervasiveness of Drug Related Corruption
• Ambiguous Position of U.S. on Drug Trafficking
• A Global Approach to Solving the Drug Problem

Newsletter 16: July 1985 [PDF File- 335Kb]

• Mari
• Health and Rehabilitation from the Bottom Up
• Project PROJIMO
• News from Project Piaxtla
• News from the Hesperian Foundation
• Become a PROJIMO Sponsor
• Needs for Assistance
• Requests for Donations to Start a Revolving Fund for Independent Income Generation
• Why We Publish Our Own Books

Newsletter 15: the PROJIMO Booklet

Newsletter 14: January 1982 [PDF File- 335Kb]

• Women Unite to Overcome Drunkeness
• A New Book for Instructors of Health Care Workers: One that links health, education, and social action--Helping Health Wokers Learn
• New Developments Since the last Newsletter (1979)
  • Educational Exchanges among Community-based Programs:
  • Visits by Piaxtla Leaders Outside Latin America
  • Prospects for a Unique Rehabilitation Program in Ajoya
• After Hurricane Norma: Help Needed to Revive the Cooperative Corn Bank

Newsletter 13: February 1979 [HTML File- 27Kb]

• Project Piaxtla's Independence
• Child-to-Child and the International Year of the Child

Newsletter 12: January 1977 [HTML File- 13Kb]

• Update on Piaxtla and Self Sufficiency
• Community-based Rural Health Programs in Central America
• Update on Donde No Hay Doctor and Where There Is No Doctor

Newsletter 11: April 1976 [HTML File- 27Kb]

• The Place
• The Building
• Teresa -- La Doctora Donde No Hay Doctor
• The Consultas
• The Vaccines
• The Bad Year

Newsletter 10: April 1975 [HTML File- 120Kb]

• Primary Health Care and the Temptation of Excellence
• The Ajoya School of Boondock Medicine
• The Needle, The Spoon
• What we learned from María

Newsletter 9: April 1974 [HTML File- 61Kb]

• The Saga of the Supermule
• The "Wine" that Turns to Blood
• Christmas '73
• Epilogue to the Saga of Supermule -or- Confessions of a Teetotaler
• Twins
• Response to Donde No Hay Doctor

Newsletter 8: January 1973 [HTML File- 59Kb]

• Kent Benedict Reports
• Dawn in Ajoya
• The El Zopilote Diary
• The Clinic of El Potrero
• The Children of Ramiro Arriola

Newsletter 7: December 1971 [PDF File- 87Kb]

• Deluge
• After the Flood: The Reckoning
• Juan
• They Don't Sting When They're Wet
  

Newsletter 6: September 1971 [PDF File- 51Kb]

Newsletter 5: October 1970[HTML File- 52Kb]

• All it Took was Heart
• Medical Personnel from the States
• Dumb Dumb
• The Dental Program
• Ecological Problems in the Barrancas
• High Protein Corn
• Education

Newsletter 4: December 1969 [HTML File- 46Kb]

• The Huricane
• The Water System
• New Staff
• El Zopilote
• Education: Progress and Problems

Newsletter 3: Missing. If you have this, please contact us.

Newsletter 2: September 1968 [HTML File- 29Kb]

Newsletter 1: September 1967 [HTML File- 36Kb]

Map of the area served by Project Piaxtla

Before the Newsletter from the Seirra Madre, David Werner issued four Reports from the Sierra Madre. They appear here in their entirety.

Report #4: 1967 [HTML File 266Kb]

Report #3: 1966 [HTML File 257Kb]

Report #2: 1966 [HTML File 136Kb]

Report #1: 1966 [HTML File 352Kb]

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