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Component 2
Promotion and integration
of traditional medicine, and improvement of health care
in the Trio and Wayana communities of Suriname.
The
Project seeks to support the health needs of the Trio
and Wayana communities, through a two-fold approach.
First, the improvement of general sanitary/health care
conditions through the implementation basic health
education programs (see for eg Workshops in
Apetina
and
Tepu), and second, through the promotion and
integration of traditional medicine, by providing for
construction and equipment of a traditional medicine
facility, training of traditional health care
practitioners and workshops for staff of the Medical
Mission clinics and for the traditional medicine clinics
at the indigenous villages of Kwamalasamutu, Tepu and
Apetina, and support for community-based ownership and
application of traditional medicine knowledge to the
outside world (see
traditional medicine research). Both sustainable
development objectives and biocultural conservation
objectives are fulfilled through the support of
traditional medicine know-how and practice. This
component builds on a previous ACT initiative, “The
Shaman’s Apprentice” program, which sought to
inventorize and support the transmission of traditional
medicine knowledge across generations, with the dual aim
of preserving an important cultural tradition while at
the same time ensuring that the ownership and patent
rights of this knowledge remain with the indigenous
groups while its benefits are shared with the rest of
the world .
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Equipment of traditional Medic Clinic, Apetina 
