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

 

In this newsletter, we look at the remarkable rejuvenation in recent years of the little village of Ajoya in the Sierra Madre, site of the health clinic that spawned David Werner's groundbreaking Where There Is No Doctor. In the midst of Mexico's economic troubles, Ajoya had fallen on hard times. The town had become almost deserted and the clinic shut down and fell into ruins. But with hard work and dedication of many locals, Ajoya and the clinic are back. The story is told in the epilogue to the new Spanish edition of David Werner's Reports from the Sierra Madre, published in 2023 by the press of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. The epilogue is adapted here, and tells the story of Ajoya's rebirth.

 

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