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Having successfully piloted the Opening Worlds Series in March and April, the series will be taking a hiatus from May through August. The monthly series returns on the fourth Tuesday of each month beginning in September. Look for more information about the Opening Worlds Series posted here soon.

Sincere thanks to Erin Kennedy, founder of HopeCraft (www.hopecraft.org), and Laurie Wheeler, homeopathic practitioner (www.homeopathy2.com), our facilitators in March and April, for launching our series with such interesting and insightful presentations.

Homeopathic health care is the focus of this month's Opening Worlds Series presentation sponsored by Awareness UNlimited of Dover. Laurie Wheeler, DiHom, a homeopathic practitioner and personal development coach since 1995, will present information about homeopathic health care and the newly opened Wellness Within clinic specifically offering care for veterans. The Opening Worlds Series: Homeopathic Health Care, part of a monthly presentation and discussion series designed to help raise community awareness about social, political, religious, cultural, wellness, career, and other diversity issues, will be held on Tuesday, April 28, at The Picker Building in Dover. The public is cordially invited to attend this event.

According to Ms. Wheeler, homeopathy is a system of medicine which recognizes our uniqueness, as we are all individuals and we react in our own way to illness and stress. Using the time-honored principle that like can be cured with like, homeopathy has taken a wide range of natural substances and carefully recorded the symptoms these substances cause in healthy people. Matching these substances as closely as possible to the individual and the particular symptoms that they are experiencing encourages their own healing energy to return them to a state of health. The results are often remarkable, bringing about cures that are rapid, gentle, and permanent. To resolve physical and mental health issues, many people today are taking an active part in their healthcare. They are tired of conventional medicine's uncertainty, side-effects from medication, or surgery as the answer to their problems. Those seeking a more natural or complementary medicine have surfaced. Conventional medicine is now being replaced or enhanced with homeopathy - for a more permanent, deeper effect and holistic change.

At Wellness Within, a new healthcare clinic in Kittery, ME, Ms. Wheeler has gathered a team of professional practitioners who are volunteering their healthcare services, using homeopathy, to local veterans. This type of clinic is the first of its kind in the seacoast area. Ms. Wheeler and her colleagues are all fully trained, have their own professional practices, and believe it is time to give back to all veterans. Homeopathic practitioners have been concerned about the increased need for treatment that veterans are, and in many cases, are not receiving, especially as the amount of medications for PTSD rise. The team at Wellness Within believes now is the time to share what they firmly are convinced is a better health approach - one that is safe, gentle, and offers a cost-effective way to heal one's body, mind, and spirit.

Ms. Wheeler began her journey with homeopathy in 1992 when she and her family became very ill and found no relief through conventional medicine. She discovered homeopathy and was surprised by the incredible healing success it provided. This prompted her to learn as much as she could about it, begin training, and become a practitioner (www.homeopathy2.com ). Ms. Wheeler hosts a live radio program called Journey Into Wellness at Portsmouth Community Radio: WSCA 106.1FM. She and her colleagues are committed to raising the health and potential of all humankind.

The Opening Worlds Series: Homeopathic Health Care presentation takes place on Tuesday, April 28, from 7:30-9:30 pm in the Third Floor Conference Room, The Picker Building, 2 Washington St., Dover, NH. Admission is free. For further information, please contact Deb Barry, Awareness UNlimited Executive Director at: deb@awareness-unlimited.com or 603-520-2933.

The Opening Worlds Series, a monthly presentation and discussion series designed to help raise community awareness about local, state-wide, national, and global issues and activities, will begin on Tuesday, March 24, at The Picker Building in Dover. The series is sponsored by Awareness UNlimited and will be held on the fourth Tuesday evening of each month. The public is cordially invited to attend these events.

Erin Kennedy, founder of HopeCraft (www.hopecraft.org), launches the series with a presentation about this NH 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to empower women in Africa. Many of the women are affected by HIV/AIDS and are often left to support children on their own. The women create beautiful jewelry, baskets, textiles, and horn products, but lack a viable local market. HopeCraft transports the crafts to the United States and sells them at local craft fairs and home sales, returning proceeds to help the women and the craft cooperatives in which they work. After two years of successful operation, HopeCraft has raised over $50,000 through the sales of crafts.

Ms. Kennedy works in the US in an administrative capacity for Nyumbani, Kenya's first facility for HIV positive abandoned children. While visiting Nyambani and its community outreach program in the slums of Nairobi, the need for income generating projects quickly became apparent. Ms. Kennedy founded HopeCraft in May 2006 with the help of five Seacoast NH women. Using fair trade standards and micro-credit lending, HopeCraft is helping these poor women help themselves.

The Opening Worlds Series is being presented by Awareness UNlimited of Dover, NH. Awareness UNlimited is a non-profit organization providing consulting, organization, and production services to individuals and groups interested in developing programming which best addresses their awareness and diversity needs/desires. Additionally, Awareness UNlimited also sponsors events designed to help connect people and provide pro-active opportunities to address the many and wide-ranging diversity and tolerance issues that touch people on a daily basis. Awareness UNlimited believes that raising awareness about these issues and putting faces to them makes a difference and helps steer the world away from conflict and misunderstanding.

The Opening Worlds Series: HopeCraft presentation takes place on Tuesday, March 24, from 7:30-9:30 pm in the Third Floor Conference Room, The Picker Building, 2 Washington St., Dover, NH. Admission is free. For further information, please contact Deb Barry, Awareness UNlimited Executive Director at: deb@awareness-unlimited.com or                603-520-2933        .