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Health and the Peace Process

People who feel better, function better. People who feel better and function better, make better choices for themselves and their family. Then they make better choices for their community and their world.

Manual Therapists and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners have an opportunity, every time they see a client, to help that individual feel better and function better. Thus starts a cycle of peace.

Anyone, everyone can contribute to peace processes in the world.
Education: Educate yourself and your family and your community about everything,
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As Margaret Mead said, "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Encounterpoint

Encournterpoint is a touching film. It is the story of people in Israel and the Middle East who have lost loved ones in the war. Now each of them is seeking ways to attain peace. See the trailer by linking here  EncounterPoint.

For more information and to donate funds to this remarkable process click on Bridging Cultures (above).

For an article on Peace and Health Care

Run under the auspices of the Al Quds Charitable Society for Disabled and Rehabilitation Shufat Camp Jerusalem is situated about 4 km from Jerusalem, surrounded by Israeli colonies.

It hosts 22,000 persons. All are officially declared refugees by UNRWA, but a proper census has never been carried out. On the average the families are composed of 7.73 persons and the average age is 17. Shufat Refugee camp was created in 1966,when the Jordanian Government and the UN made the Palestinian habitants relocate, with the promise of new houses and land to cultivate.

IMT is a therapy developed by Sharon Weiselfish Giammatteo, PhD, PT. It is an all encompassing therapy evaluating and treating systems of the body, (ie) MusculoSkeletal, Digestive, Circulatory, Visceral and Nervous system.

Ann Admon is an Israeli citizen, American born, Jewish by religion and lives in Jerusalem.

By treating with this hands-on therapy, healing on many levels can take place. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

It can bring about better health, lessen pain and stress and address disabilities caused by traumatic and/or emotional injuries. This treatment can also address physical and emotional issue among the many children who live here. Many of the children have impaired physical development and learning disabilities.

But foremost this project is about acknowledging the suffering of a people with the same dreams and hope for a better future, as we all have, for themselves, their children and future generations.

It is about the bridging of cultures, Palestinian and Israeli, we are all brothers and sisters. It is about changing belief systems, showing compassion and love.

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