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PROMOTORAS TRADICIONALES

“As we heal ourselves, we heal the earth.”

Promotoras Tradicionales Project

The Promotoras Tradicionales Project (the Project) emerged from Kalpulli Izkalli's Cihuapahtli (Women's Medicine) Project in 1999 as an opportunity for women to come together to share their knowledge of utilizing traditional medicine for healing themselves and their families. The Project is mostly a volunteer program run entirely by women in the community. The Project provides and promotes culturally- relevant preventative health care education and services to empower women in making healthcare decisions for themselves and their families and helps build leadership among women who are reclaiming, reconnecting, and recognizing, the traditional and natural ways in which people participate in their own healing.                                                                   

The primary purpose of this project is to strengthen Las Comadres, our collective of more than 25 practitioners of traditional and natural medicine as Promotoras Tradicionales who bring a more traditional form of  medicine and economic development to our community.  The major goals of the Project are to: 1) expand capacity for community health education to women and families, 2) increase access to preventative health care education and services to women and their families, and 3) forge the link between health care providers, programs, and advocates and traditional community healers.

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The major goals of the Project are to:

• Expand capacity for community health education to women and families in the South Valley
• Increase access to preventative health care services to women and their families in the South Valley
• Forge the link between health care providers, programs, advocates and traditional community healers, and
• Provide culturally appropriate healthcare education and services.

Our programs include:

• The "Topahkal"(House of Our Medicine) - a donation-based clinic utilizing traditional medicine
• Creation of Las Comadres - a collective of women practitioners of traditional medicine
• "Tochipahtli" (Nuestra Medicina - Our Medicine) - a notebook which includes information and material accumulated by the project that is duplicated and utilized in our workshops
• The Herb Book of locally cultivated and wild medicinal herbs
  Bringing together of several women practitioners of traditional medicine with women elders in the community for knowledge sharing and leadership building
• Community workshops, knowledge sharing, and health education that has increased the empowerment of women and their families in self-healing and healthcare decision-making
• Relationships with health care providers, programs, and advocates that promotes equitable healthcare access.
• The Apprenticeship Program for young women 15-30 to provide continuity and expand the collective of learners and teachers known as Promotoras Tradicionales.
   

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