Aid to the impoverished

The Huichol Center feeds and shelters hundred of Huichols each year who find themselves temporarily in urban environments without adequate resources.

Widowed and abandoned women are taken in and taught marketable skills to support their families. A daily feeding program provides free nutritious food to Huichol school children, medical patients, and travelers needing temporary assistance.

Medical assistance

The Huichol people are dying off in large numbers due to several factors:

• the encroachment of the dominant contemporary society
• the devastating effects of poverty
• the migration of Huichols to tobacco plantations and cities where they are exposed to the effects of insecticide poisoning, malnutrition, parasitic diseases, and infectious diseases

The state and federal programs for the poor do not adequately provide for these isolated people.

Medical attention is provided free of charge at the Huichol Center, where treatment is administered by traditional shamans and local medical doctors.

The medical services provided in tandem with the local hospitals include: emergency and out-patient care, medical transport, lab work, rural health maintenance care, TB recovery facilities, pre-natal care, birthing, and nutritional and preventative medicine counseling.