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Herbalists Without Borders People's Clinics

Global citizens continue to be marginalized, displaced, unemployed, homeless, imprisoned, or forced into prostitution or human slavery. Many people struggle economically, living in rural isolation in overcrowded refugee camps - all facing incredible barriers to health and wellness.

HWB promotes down-to-the-ground green medicine for people who desire access to natural and botanical medicine based on need and not the ability to pay. All HWB clinics depend on the generosity and volunteer time of the natural medicine communities they serve, from people like you.

HWB has many types of People's Clinics:

  • Free Clinics

  • Herb Buses & Mobile People’s Clinics (Do not operate within the vehicle)

  • Herbal Street Medics

  • Rural Access Projects

  • Herb Barges

  • International/Borderless Medicine: Our Chapters Respond to Natural Disasters with Pop-Up Clinics, Table Clinics and Mobile Clinics

Our Community Clinics Model informally began in 1995 (later formalizing in 2007) with mobile natural medicine clinic units in various locales providing accessible health and wellness education to patients and communities. HWB clinics offer both free and sliding-scale health and wellness services to patients in dire need.

These Peoples Clinics vary depending upon the chapter that organizes them. Some are walk-in, by appointment, staffed by volunteer herbalists, naturopaths, massage therapists, reflexologists, and sundry other Complementary Alternative Medicine practitioners, as well as clinical herbalism students.

Clinics are hosted monthly in some regions and daily in other regions. All are run by volunteers. Peoples Clinics are as based on the needs of the people they serve in communities worldwide.

”"Approximately half of the world's population lives on less than $2 daily and it is impossible for them to buy medicines."

WHO, World Health Organization

”"Indigenous healing practices are ancient, intact, complex, holistic health care systems practiced by indigenous people worldwide..."

ReCLAIM Collective of Healers, 2012

”"80% of all people in the world make use of herbal medicine as their main health care."

WHO, World Health Organization
Group of people doing a tea tasting
Free Herb Clinic volunteer meeting community member
Free Herb Clinic volunteer carrying a box of supplies
Free Herb Clinic volunteer showing off sign
Herbalist leading an herbalism workshop
An herbalist offering free massages at a free people's clinic
Students smiling in a classroom while participating in an herbal training
An herbalist leading a workshop and sharing handouts
An herbalist leading a workshop with students sitting attentively

Interested in creating an HWB People's Clinic?

First, join Herbalists Without Borders™ as a member, or already have a registered HWB Chapter -- HWB registered members receive organizational technical assistance with creating community clinics & projects designed for your region, plus a free guide: HOW-TO TOOLKIT for MOBILE PEOPLE'S CLINICS

You also will have access to our Relief Action Coordinator, HWB volunteer specialists, and the HWB Google Drive folders that have clinic forms and resources, educational resources, seed-saving resources, HWB print and digital media for you to use, and more.

Already organizing a free community clinic? Wondering if you should join our network as an existing free clinic?

Are you already organizing a Free People's Clinic in your community? By creating a project under HWB as an official member (or members, if you have multiple organizers), you will then be able to operate your free clinic under the HWB nonprofit umbrella and use our status as a fiscal sponsorship. You will also have access to all of the resources listed above.

We also provide support for your grant writing under our nonprofit, we share donated supplies within our US system fairly and equitably with clinics as we have them (priority given to disaster relief, of course), and help other nations create this model in their own country, and we help promote your clinic on our website if you are interested, and on our clinic page and FB page.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF HWB!

HWB is a 501c3 NGO nonprofit. Our nonprofit is a global member network of of herbalists, medicinal plant growers, herbal educators, alternative holistic modality practitioners and others dedicated to herbal health access for all, medicinal plant conservation, health justice and more.

Our international headquarters office is in NY and our US Donation Distribution Network is based in Wisconsin. Please email for our mailing address to ship donations.

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