Look At My Strengths, Not My Weaknesses

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Welcome to HealthWrights, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual differences.

This website features over 50 years of documentation of the activities of HealthWrights and its founder David Werner. Here you will find Newsletters in English, Boletínes in Spanish, articles, books and videos published by HealthWrights. Find out more about HealthWrights and its projects by reading this introduction.

 

 

  • David Werner in the classroom.

    Education

  • A man smiling from his wheelchair.

    Friendship

  • David Werner checking on a patient.

    Health Care

  • A man surrounded by friends raising his crutches in victory.

    Community

  • A disabled man using a machine tool.

    Building Lives

 

 

Newsletter 90 tells the story of local campesinos in El Tablón Viejo, Sinaloa, Mexico, coming together to help indigenous families who have recently arrived after being forced off their ancestral lands by desperadoes in the drug trade. Some of these displaced families have settled on the village outskirts, where they’ve found support from a friend whose own childhood was shaped by gang violence. Finally, we present a new art book featuring David Werner's drawings and paintings over eight decades.

Where There Is No Doctor (1977)

Learn more about David Werner's bestselling community healthcare manual Where There Is No Doctor, based on his experiences in Mexico's Sierra Madre. It has been described by the World Health Organization as 'arguably the most wide-used public health manual in the world.' (click here)

"One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army."

— José Martí (1853-1895)

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