FIMA Mission Statement:

FIMA - Foundation for Integrated Medicine in Africa, Previously known as Organized Medicine Foundation (OMF) is a registered Canadian charitable foundation geared towards delivering integrated medicine to rural communities in Africa, treating people regardless of race, religion, political views or sex. FIMA is beginning its first project in Kenya, where naturopathic doctors and other holistic health care practitioners will work together to create better health options for poorer communities by creating clinics and work with existing medical facilities. We will deliver free medicines, services, books and education in conventional, homeopathic, herbal, and holistic health care with the help of student and professional volunteers from North America and other areas around the globe.

FIMA is geared towards creating self-sustainability by having our volunteers work closely with African doctors and health workers in rural areas. In this way, there is a transfer of medical knowledge that is left in the hands of the local people. FIMA aims to help the medical practices in these communities shift towards becoming more integrated and holistic in nature, while respecting boundaries, cultures and existing medical practices.

FIMA aims to create a learning opportunity for holistic health care practitioners. When our volunteers work in environments that are different and sometimes more challenging than conventional clinical settings, they have the opportunity to deepen their clinical knowledge in disease treatment and diagnosis. By working closely with local African health practitioners, volunteers have the chance to learn from seasoned practitioners in areas that they would otherwise not be exposed to. FIMA will also work closely with allopathic medical volunteers, who will share their knowledge and learn from our holistic practitioners to become better versed in integrated medicine. This furthering in clinical knowledge and training will benefit international communities as well, when volunteers return home with renewed skills to treat people in their own communities.

How FIMA is different from existing organizations

·We are geared towards training local health workers to take on the task of continuing the health care projects, so self sustainability is maximized.

·FIMA often works with existing clinics so as not to recreate services/facilities, nor do we waste valuable funding on recreating existing resources. This also means that existing facilities that hire local people are not competed with, but added to value instead.

·We promote the joining of natural medicine practitioners and conventional medicine practitioners.

·By training and using existing facilities/organizations, our work reaches further, and continuity is more certain as we add to the strength of existing resources.

·We are really about sharing, because we know that you can't lose by helping others.

Integrated Health Care Makes Sense

Health is defined by World Health Organization as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". An approach to complete health incorporates regular medicine, naturopathic medicine, as well as other traditional methods of healing, and will benefit a community living with traditional knowledge and limited resources.

How You Benefit others with FIMA

· Communities with limited or no medical care receive health care and medicines from FIMA doctors.

· FIMA will teach local health care workers skills in integrated holistic medicine, and use mobile clinics to sustain these health care initiatives on a continuous basis.

· Foreign doctors who volunteer with FIMA improve their clinical experience when treating a wider range of tropical diseases. They also bring new knowledge to treat diseases that have been a burden on African communities so far. By working in the field with FIMA, they also become better doctors for their own community.

· Medical doctors from around the world will work alongside holistic doctors and also learn integrated medicine while serving poor communities. This means that around the world we will begin to have better doctors who have a more comprehensive knowledge of holistic and integrated medicine. Everyone will then have access to some form of integrated medicine.

Gifts and Donations

We need your help to start more health care projects. Your donations go directly towards the projects, and are not used to pay any salaries. With enough funding, we do hope to be able to pay for a naturopathic doctor to remain in country for 1 whole year (see cost for keeping doctor below in donations list). Your donations go to helping rural communities get better health care, and also support the work of doctors from around the world, since doctors from around the world volunteer with us. You will be helping your own community to have doctors who have learned integrated medicine through us. We are appreciating the following gifts from your kindness.

$20 will help fund homeopathic medicines to treat sick people for 2 weeks

$50 will fund homeopathic and herbal medicines for 4 weeks

$100 will help ensure that we can continue follow ups with patients over the next months

$250 will also buy gauze, gloves, bandages, medicine, and acupuncture needles for 1 month, or a supply of Chinese herbal medicines for 2 persons.

$300 will help fund laboratory supplies for blood and urine analysis for tropical diseases

$500 buys books for 1 community doctor to start using naturopathy and homeopathic medicine.

$800 will support running/insurance/repairs for the volunteers' mobile clinic vehicle for 2 months

$1000 will bring means to deliver vitamins, selenium and nutrition for HIV/AIDS homes

$20,000 will buy a good sturdy vehicle to get to difficult areas and isolated communities.

$48,000 will keep our clinic and mobiles running for a year. This includes stipends for our naturopathic doctors who work full time for a year on the project, facilitating supplies, and coordinating our projects successfully and consistently year round.

$50,000 a year will ensure continuity for our projects and the spreading of our services to other areas.

If you can make a donation, kindly give online through the secure paypal link, or please send us a cheque to the Canadian address.

Canada Address	Kenya Address
Foundation for Integrated Medicine in Africa (FIMA)	Foundation for Integrated Medicine in Africa(FIMA)
3125-113A St	P.O. Box 275
Edmonton, Alberta T6J 3V3	Nanyuki
Canada	Kenya

Asante! and hope to see you out there soon,

With warmest regards,

Ameet