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Mindful Medicine WorldwideOCOM2011

Kathmandu, Nepal

Our Mission

• Permanent • Underserved locations • Global• Unique

How We Do it

• Integrative Medicine• Mindfulness

• No Added Charge to Volunteer

• Training Locals

Mindfulness & Developing Compassion

• Patient base and trust: Regulatory Bodies

• Teach patients: Shorten healing time

• Calm abiding as a practitioner

Day in the Life of a Volunteer

• 7am- 9am Off site Clinics

• 9am- 2 Main Clinic• 2-4pm- Training• Fridays- Nunnery• Typical Patients:

Typhoid, deafness, TB, stroke, paralysis, severe asthma, gastritis

Patient Education and Training

Satellite Clinics

NunneryOrphanage

Rehabilitation CenterRetirement Home

Beggar’s Settlement

Beggar’s

How We’ve Grown!With your help

• 2 Volunteers • 2 Clinics & 2

satellites• Self-

translating• 4400Patients

• 7 Volunteers• 2 Clinics & 7

satellites • Translators• 8500 Patients• Teachers• 501(c)(3)• 1st grant

20102009

Future Projects• Establish Third Clinic:

NamoBuddha• Internship Local Acupuncture School

• Complete Curriculum• Extensive Volunteer

Training Program• Research and Monitor

Effectiveness

Your Cost $8/month

30 treatmentsWe provide:

• Housing and Meals• Basic Training

• Clinic setting with $2000 in supplies (4

mo)• Transportation

• Interpreters• CE with Expert

Teachers

You provide:• $750 in Fundraising

• Airfare• OM Expertise• Compassion

• Dedication to Future Projects

Thank you!“I am very glad to be here… because the work I did not finish is not important to me

and the work I will be able to do after I get back will be so much better.”