4/20/07

Love and Respect to all Beings.  As I sit here in Coban, Guatemala, I feel I should speak about the situation here in Central America.  Like much of the world, the people here have very little access to medical services.  I have encountered a number of people who have lost wives or children due to poor medical services, or who cannot get the care they need for very curable problems such as parasites, where antibiotics and a bit of education would do the trick.  This is a very sad problem.  Private services are way beyond the reach of many people here, and public services are truly lacking. 

But in the last few days, I had the pleasure to serve as part of a medical mission, delivering free supplies and setting up a free clinic in a small village in the highlands.  It was a great experience.  It really felt so good giving the medicines and therapy that would help these people to be healthy.  In our world of affluence, there really should be a high level of medical care, for all people.  This care should extend to caring for their water systems and their environments, as well as their physical health.  Though I don´t think any of the crooked governments or profiteering corporations that make up our current power structure are inclined to do this, private groups, NGOs, nonprofits, and tribes of cool hepcats can do so very much with a relatively small amount of money. 

So one experience can shape a path for a lifetime, and I am strongly considering going into traditional medicine and gathering a team of healers and sustainable developers to do just this sort of work.  We can travel together and purchase all the necessary supplies to make these clinics possible.  We can help people in need, and help the people who are doing the helping, who could certainly use some cheap medical services.  We can also set up for profit corporations who make tax deductable donations to our non-profit group that funds the charity work. 

This dream includes a medical center in the west coast, which is for profit but reasonably priced, and includes scholarships to med schools for potential future generations, and some free care for those who cant affort it.  It also includes a caravan of vehicles who do mobile nomad style medical clinics, and a fleet of ships who do the same all over the world.  The caravan and fleet are also designed to trade goods and services, to make money for our project.  They pick up items in the third world and sell them fair trade style in the US. 

So what I would like to do is start a website and an organization.  But I have no idea how to do this.  If anyone knows web design and whatnot, I´d be willing to pay for the website and put lots of work into getting it organized.  It can have information about health, self-healthcare, news, etc, and eventually be the electronic hub of all that we co-create.  Anyways all this is just future stuff, and I have to concentrate on massage school, but I think the universe is going to help us with this dream and I am very excited to be a part of it. 

Guatemala is beautiful, and I am headed to the rainbow gathering.  I wish that all of my relations could experience this too, but I honor all of your personal experiences and hope for you all to feel love and health and happiness and breath and groundation. 

Much Love,
Alex


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