Objectives
- Maintain cross-cultural exchange between western ideals and traditional principles.
- Preserve human dignity by promoting opportunities for cross-cultural collaboration.
- Conduct anthropological and open ended ethnographic studies on traditional healer practitioners in urban, periurban and rural areas to understand their world view on illnesses and traditional medicines.
- Provide research findings and data for medical personnel working in developing countries.
- Advance collaboration between traditional views and western views to better understand pragmatic ways to address health issues.
- Transform biased perceptions, via a continuing dialogue, among the differing philosophies of the western and traditional ideals concerning medical practices.
- Uphold the sharing of viewpoints to stimulate participation in understanding other philosophies with reference to medical treatment.
- Acquire and allocate resources that support healthy lifestyles in rural villages.
- Encourage capacity building in rural villages.