:HWB Vision and Values

​ Our Primary Values 

• HWB believes that health and wellness are human rights, not privileges

• HWB recognizes many global citizens lack access to primary health and wellness due to economic hardship and other barriers

• HWB promotes health justice and oppression free local and global wellness practices

• HWB engages in volunteer efforts focused primarily on natural and botanical health and wellness solutions via education, prevention, empowerment, grassroots advocacy and organizing

• HWB builds a renewed consciousness about conditions created by dominant social and economic institutions that impact all human beings; emphasizing the roles of traditional herbalists and healers who live and work within those systems often experiencing social stigma, pressure, devalued status and sub-standard wages for vital services they provide

• HWB believes that poverty is inherently violent in nature and health services must be accessible and affordable

• HWB embraces non-violence, social justice, health and wellness as means to transform cultural and global trauma and violence

• HWB creates and promotes inter-cultural herbal health education, herbal borderless medicine exchanges and actions via local to global chapters

Mission Statement

Herbalists Without Borders vision is a global community where all people have access to affordable natural and botanical health and wellness. To bring that vision into reality, we work with community-based chapters to create educational, advocacy and grassroots model projects to fill the gaps in health justice internationally.

"You Cannot Get Through a Single Day Without Having an Impact on the World Around You.  What You Do Makes a Difference, and You Have to Decide What Kind of Difference You're Going to Make."  
~Jane Goodall

• HWB promotes the protection and preservation of indigenous herbs and healers, including intellectual property rights that honor and respect the wisdom of both traditional plants and healers globally; regenerating valuable traditional healing wisdom and practices that have been negated, oppressed, misused or extinguished

• HWB educates the public about growing and eating of traditional local healthful natural foods and herbs; relearning and recollecting of everyday traditional cultural healing lifestyles

• HWB supports equitable, sustainable, community-based, fair trade practices pertaining to foods, herbs and botanical products

• HWB embraces grassroots empowerment models and actions, encouraging local people to utilize their own unique community resources to create accessible peoples' natural medicine clinics and other innovative holistic model projects

• HWB promotes sharing of holistic health and wellness resources and open source information that will assist all people and practitioners

• HWB believes in building foundations of honesty, trust, openness, compassion and collaboration within holistic health and wellness realms

• HWB assists herbalists and other healers with continuous training, education, technical assistance and resources

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• HWB believes in creating alternative natural medicine solutions that individuals, communities and countries may begin implementing NOW

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Herbalists Without Borders is sustained by volunteers, donors & members delivering health, wellness and humanitarian aid to those in need. ​