GUAMAP is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) acupuncture training project that uses a “barefoot doctor” model for rural community health care. GUAMAP supports local trained acupuncturists and also sends Spanish-speaking professional acupuncturists from other countries to train local community health promoters in the northern department of Petén, Guatemala. GUAMAP supplies training curriculum for basic TCM training, advanced TCM theory,annual specialty training workshops, and training of trainers. GUAMAP volunteers prepare curriculum to treat local conditions requested by local acupuncturists. GUAMAP advises and shares resources with other TCM training programs in developing countries. GUAMAP acupuncturists now serve 20 communities.


DONATE for COVID RELIEF

All donations are tax deductible. GUAMAP is a 501(C)3 tax exempt not for profit organization. Your donation will be acknowledged at the address you provide.

Donate By Mail: Make check made out to “GUAMAP” and mail to GUAMAP, POB 85371, Tucson Arizona, 85754.

Donate On Line: at Here - Use PayPal or Money Order.

To donate to our local Tucson grocery effort, note- “Pandemic Groceries” in the 2nd address tagline,

To Donate to Peten COVID Relief, in 2nd address line, note "Peten COVID Relief" Or you can leave it blank and we will use your donation where it is most needed.
Thank you and stay safe!  


GUAMAP COVID AID to PETEN GUATEMALA

• GUAMAP’s Acupuncture Working Group created a 26-page manual for acupuncturists in Petén Guatemala. It covers the most current COVID related sanitation, clinical, and TCM acupuncture and Mayan plant medicine treatment protocols. Petén acupuncturists contributed plant knowledge for the manual. Mild and severe COVID related symptoms diagnosis, plant medicine prescription, and acupuncture treatments are offered.  Each Petén acupuncturist received a free copy of the manual

• A four hour COVID and Acupuncture Workshop via zoom was provided to acupuncturists in Petén, Guatemala in socially distanced training centers, on September 18th at Poptún and on September 30th, 2020 at Dolores and to two acupuncturists in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The workshop emphasized upper respiratory treatment strategies for mild symptoms, and lower respiratory treatment strategies for severe symptoms; with special focus on the heart and lungs, digestion promotion in all stages, and energy recovery and combating depression in the recovery period

• A one-time $ 120.00 per practitioner economic support stipend

• Complete PPE for all 20 acupuncturists (masks, shields, gloves)

• Funded ASCECSA to purchase and distribute 20 blood pressure cuffs and stethoscopes

• A contact phone number for Peten acupuncturists to consult two GUAMAP US- based volunteer practitioners on urgent COVID cases

• An acupuncture Trauma clinic was held in August, 2020 at St Mark’s Presbyterian Church for immigrant legal and social aid advocates

• By Oct. 23, some 448 food boxes with an approximate retail value of $36 for each of 28 families based on wholesale buying have been delivered

• Sanitizer, face masks and educational materials about benefits and health updates available during COVID have been included with the food boxes

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