Homeopathic charities

Freshwinds’ Integrated Medicine programme provides complementary therapies for adults and children with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses.  We follow an integrated medicine model of care whereby complementary therapies are combined with the client’s existing medical care that they are receiving from their GP / hospital.  The underlying principle guiding our work is that of holistic care.

We have a variety of projects within the Integrated Medicine programme providing in-house and outreach services.  Our integrated medicine team includes 3 doctors (as well as other volunteer doctors), 2 complementary therapy co-ordinators, an outreach assessor, volunteer therapists (up to 50), sessional therapists (up to 10), a research assistant and an admin assistant.

We have a commitment to the continuing professional development of our staff and volunteers.  As such we have regular therapists’ meetings which incorporate elements of teaching (including guest speakers) and case discussions.  We also offer other training opportunities such as Moving and Handling Training and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Awareness Training.

Clients accessing the different integrated medicine projects have a variety of health problems.  Our adult clients include, for example, people with cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV, SLE, palliative and end stage conditions.  Our child clients include children with complex conditions, Down’s syndrome, developmental disorders, autism, genetic and chromosomal disorders and others.  Clients initially undergo an holistic assessment, which includes a medical history as well as details of their psycho-emotional, family, relationships, financial and social circumstances. Following this a package of care is planned which includes not just complementary therapies but also referrals to other Freshwinds’ projects or external services depending on the client needs identified during the holistic assessment.

If you are interested in volunteering at Freshwinds, please contact:

Dr Pankaj Shah – Medical Officer
E-mail: dr.shah@Freshwinds.org.uk

Freshwinds
Prospect Hall, 12 College Walk, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6LE
Telephone:  0121 415 6670
Web: www.freshwinds.org.uk

Registered charity number: 1079968
Registered company number: 3936089|

This exciting and rewarding opportunity will involve you in both village and city life with Ghanaian homeopaths and health care workers, students and patients.

You will need to be an experienced and principled prescriber with some supervision, mentoring and/ or teaching experience.

We will provide you with induction, support and peer supervision, £100 monthly subsistence and accommodation.

Can you commit a year to supporting homeopathy in Ghana? If so, then a warm Ghanaian welcome awaits you.

Akwaaba!

You can also help by small monthly standing order.
And / or volunteer for tasks to suit your talents in the UK, in Ghana and around the world.

Homeopathy in Africa is a registered charity number 1125981

website: www.ghanahomeopathy.org

The vision

The charity’s main objective is the relief and prevention of disease working closely together with local community developments and initiatives.

The vision is the establishment of homeopathy as a recognised part of the health care system in Africa and Ghana in particular, as the projects focus of activity.The charity supports the development of homeopathic education and vocational facilities together with local partners in health care and Government.

The vision is to make homeopathy available to the poorest communities as a valid and affordable treatment and to support health education.The project works towards integrated health care with respect for the contribution of both conventional and traditional medicine.

We work with the Ghanaian code of Ethics and Practice for Traditional and Alternative Medicine and promote best professional practice.

The vision is of clinics throughout the region which make the best use of existing and emergent health care practices and which are managed and supported locally.

The aim is to contribute towards a sustainable and self reliant integrated health care service.

This vision is shared with the Ghanaian Health Ministry Department of Traditional and Alternative Medicine and with many local health care practitioners and communities.

To achieve the vision

• The Ghana Homeopathy Project works in partnership. We work with midwives, primary health care workers and educators, doctors, traditional herbalists and healers, government and professional associations as well as local homeopaths.
• The project provides consultancy, volunteers, education, supervision and professional services, books and remedies. Support is offered freely and in a spirit of research and enquiry. For example we record and monitor cases of people treated by homeopathy and assess progress together with student practitioners under supervision.

Our work so far
In Mafi Seva villages in the Volta region we work in partnership with an integrated clinic with 5 local student homeopaths under supervision, to provide health care and education to people in 25 villages. The clinic works together with a clean water project and Kekeli women, a health and social education project.

We work in partnership with Ghana Centre for Homeopathy and Natural health and local homeopaths in Accra to provide mobile clinics in slum areas. These also operate as training clinics for local students of homeopathy.

In Kumasi, the Northern city, we have begun working with Ghanaian homeopaths and a local Doctor to provide integrated health care and outreach clinics.

The UK team fund raises, provides resources, promotes the project, manages the project together with the trustees and partners in Ghana, and runs a volunteer programme to support and facilitate the aims.

The UK team is Linda Shannon, Grace Da Silva-Hill, Sheila Ryan and Angelika Metzger

FREE SEMINAR!!!
The Methodology Maze’ with Tony Hurley will be free to students and practitioners and will be held on Sunday June 13th In Bristol

Organised by the Contemporary College of Homeopathy, Bristol in aid of the Ghana Homeopathy Project which it sponsors.

Tony will use his extensive understanding of materia medica to illustrate some of the concepts arising out of the different methodologies and will weave a cohesive pattern from them all. Tony is one of the most experienced lecturers and practitioners in the UK.

There are so many schools of homeopathy each training students with a different approach but there is one thing they have in common and that is the desire to improve the health of the planet.

The vision of the Ghana Homeopathy Project is the establishment of homeopathy as a recognised and integrated part of the health care system in Africa and Ghana in particular. The Ghana Homeopathy Project joins with local partners in Ghana to offer opportunities for training and education to local people.

see: www.ghanahomeopathy.org

Venue: Contemporary College of Homeopathy, Emmaus House, Bristol 10am-5pm.

The seminar is free to all but please bring a donation for the Ghana project. Places must be booked in advance through Linda Shannon 01305 824996 who can give more details about the seminar and the GHP. Places are limited so book soon!

About Homeopathy Action Trust (HAT)

HAT’s aims are to:

• promote study and research into homeopathic medicine and publish results
• educate and assist the development of knowledge and skills in homeopathy through funding of student grants
• fund health centres, hospitals and/or other institutions for health care
• educate the public in the art and science of homeopathy
• contribute to the relief of sickness on a wider scale

Joining HAT

We welcome new members to HAT:

• You may be one of the thousands of people who have experienced
• successful homeopathic treatment and wish to ‘put something back’
• You may want to take more responsibility for your own and your family’s health
• You may just want to know more about homeopathy

As a member of HAT you will:

• receive quarterly copies of Homeopathy in Action magazine, packed with practical information, patient cases, and related health topics
• gain full access to the CAMLIS library and online resources

Together we can make a difference, and whether you are a patient, student or practitioner, by joining HAT you will be:

• supporting low cost clinics and student bursaries
• helping to fund homeopathic research
• meeting with other Friends, and perhaps starting your own homeopathic group
• enjoying fundraising to support homeopathy in your community
• helping to ensure homeopathy is accessible as widely as possible

To join us, go to our website and click on the link ‘Joining HAT’.

Thank you.

Contact Details:

Website: www.homeopathyactiontrust.org

Email: enquiries@homeopathyactiontrust.org

Telephone: 0844 800 2840

HAT, PO Box 9022, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE13 9BZ

Charity number: 328537 Homeopathy Action Trust

Defending Choice in Medicine

In order to counter the attacks on homeopathy and attempts to remove it from the NHS, H:MC21 is providing:

• the opportunity for those who have found that homeopathy works to be counted by signing the declaration “Homeopathy Worked for Me”
• advice and support for those wishing to challenge the attacks themselves, including a letter to be sent to Primary Care Trusts, and information for use when writing to local MPs
• wide-ranging information about homeopathy’s theory, practice and history
• a communication network which will enable a rapid response by supporters to articles attacking homeopathy

Future plans include a march in London.

H:MC21 would like you to:

• help collect 250,000 signatures to the declaration
• arrange “Homeopathy Actually …” parties when those who know that homeopathy actually works can promote homeopathy, the campaign and local practices (we can help with speakers etc.)
• write to your local Primary Care Trust using the letter in the Resource Pack
• write to you local MP
• join our e-newsletter database

Contact Details:

Websites:

www.homeopathyworkedforme.org

www.hmc21.org

Emails:

trustees@homeopathyworkedforme.org

info@hmc21.org

Telephone:

01234 241133 Ursula Kraus-Harper

01366 500799 William Alderson

Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century is a registered charity no. 1124711.

Registered address: Poppyseed Cottage, High Street, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk PE33 9SF

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The HRI newsletter will allow you to keep up to date with key developments in homeopathy research effortlessly. Members of our Scientific Advisory Committee and guest authors take jargon-filled scientific papers from all areas of homeopathy research and translate them into these easy-to-read publications sent to you free of charge via email.

The institute is the first dedicated central resource of its kind and will be playing a pivotal role in the future of homeopathy research, but its work is entirely dependent on donations. We therefore welcome the invaluable contribution of new supporters.

To join the Homeopathy Research Institute community, make a donation or to find out more, please visit:

www.homeoinst.org

or contact us at:

Email: info@homeoinst.org

Chief Executive: Rachel Roberts

Charity number: 1132901

The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

60 Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3HR

Telephone: 0845 155 5000 or 020 3456 7890

Charity number: 269289

website: www.savenhshomeopathy.org

MHP is a registered charity (No. 1109958) founded by Hilary Fairclough and Philippa Brewster in 2002:

• establishing a permanent and free homeopathic service for women, men and children living with HIV and AIDS and/or traumatised by rape in Maun, Botswana
• working in partnership with agencies in the local community
• offering holistic care to people suffering from illness, trauma, grief and stigma
• travelling light with a mobile clinic providing an outreach service for those most in need
• recruiting and supporting local people to train in homeopathy to an internationally recognised standard

A Community in Crisis

Since 2002, The Maun Homeopathy Clinic has been running free homeopathy outreach clinics in Maun, a fast growing town in the north of Botswana, where over 35% of the people are infected with HIV or AIDS, one of the highest rates in the world.

We are now recruiting for volunteers to work in Maun for 6 – 12 week stretches. The clinics, which treat people living with HIV and/or traumatised by rape, are firmly established in the community and the work we continue to do is challenging, rewarding and often inspiring. In Maun you would be involved in providing a service that makes a huge difference to individuals, seeing lives turned around and treating serious pathology which we rarely see in our private practices. It is an intense professional and personal development opportunity. Our best testament is that homeopaths who’ve already been there go back for more!

We have recently recruited 3 local people to be trainees in homeopathy. The School of Homeopathy in Devon has donated us places for them on their Distance Learning Course. We think this is an important and exciting development leading towards sustainability of the Project and contributing towards the creation of a firm homeopathic base in Botswana. If you decided to volunteer, your role would therefore involve supporting the trainees who will be interpreting in the clinics as part of their apprenticeship learning, and running weekly tutorials for them.

The charity does its utmost to prepare you before you go by running induction days, and to support you while you are there by providing personal telephone supervision from dedicated volunteer homeopath supervisors in the UK. You would also get regular telephone management support. Further there are key people in Maun who support the homeopaths when they are there.

At the moment we ask that volunteers pay for their own air fare which costs between £650 – £850 depending on the time of year. In the future we hope to have funds available to contribute towards your flight but meanwhile we would support you in an fundraising you might need to do before going. The charity pays for all your living expenses while you are there.

Hilary Fairclough RSHom, Clinical Director

The Maun Homeopathy Project
37a Hartham Road, London N7 9JQ
Tel: 020 7607 3613

website: www.homeopathybotswana.com

The Clinics offer treatment for acute conditions, such as hay fever, sun stroke, sunburn, digestive upsets, coughs, and colds, all common occurrences at such events. We also offer advice and support for people who have chronic or more long-term disorders and diseases as well as this we promote Homoeopathy.

The Collective is made up of Qualified, Registered and Insured Homoeopaths who work on a voluntary basis. All donations received go towards maintenance, travel expenses, and the further promotion of Homoeopathy.

To find out more visit:

www.thc.org.uk

Disclaimer: Homeopathic Charities

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