GUAMAP sends Spanish-speaking acupuncturists and other health care volunteers equipped with a full range of medicines, needles, teaching tools and treatment supplies to selected villages in northern Guatemala. Local trainers of health promoters integrate GUAMAP´s acupuncture training course into an ongoing health care curriculum.   GUAMAP also sends shipments of medicines and specialized supplies requested by health promoter representatives for various community health projects.

Why Acupuncture?

For over 3,000 years, traditional (and modern) Chinese practitioners have relied on medicinal herbs and acupuncture to successfully treat millions of people. There is historical evidence of a Maya puncture method in Central America that was similar to early chinese acupuncture. Training in acupuncture as preventive and curative medicine began in Guatemala during the 1970s, was used by communities in exile during the 1980s, in Mexican refugee camps, and then resumed in Guatemala in the 1990s. The method has been eagerly accepted by rural communities and its use is growing.

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