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 88 reports on the honorary doctorate awarded David Werner in June 2023 by the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), at a festive ceremony in the state capital of Culiacán. The UAS was celebrating David's work “helping people in the Sierra Madre of Sinaloa and worldwide improve their well-being” -- as well the publication by its press of the new Spanish edition of David Werner's Reports from the Sierra Madre. The event brought together hundreds of public health workers, disability activists, and friends -- some of whom reconnected with David after decades. As well, important new connections were made -- such as with the family of Arthur Heyer, about whom a revelatory new biography has been written by Arthur's brother, Juan Antonio Heyer Banda. A quadraplegic since an accident at age 17, Arthur went on to study engineering and invent extraordinary new tools and assistive devices that enabled him to live a rich and productive life, as the book's title notes, “without moving a single finger.”

 

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