What does Bodytree offer to the local community? Bodytree provides the local indigenous community and other poor people in the vicinity with a primary health care clinic for consultation, treatment and health advice. On average 50 local people visit the clinic every day. We also operate health education workshops using theatre and audio-visual material as illustration. These participatory awareness programmes cover the importance of biodiversity; conservation of the forest and basic primary health care techniques using locally available medicinal plants. Instead of prescribing commercialised market medicines, we show people where to collect fresh medicinal plants and how to prepare these plants to heal their health problems. This provides an equal community access to appropriate, safe and reliable medicine for primary health care regardless of economic status. The community's respect, understanding and care towards local plants also increase. Community foot massage Bodytree students are expected to complete 1008 foot massages during the first year of their studies. We offer community foot massage on a daily basis at the outpatients clinic and in the evenings for each other to wind down each day. Once a year we make a journey to different pilgrimage sites and offer free foot massage to people ending their pilgrimages. Occupational health education Bodytree offers occupational health education programmes for the local community. The majority of local people who come to Bodytree for health advice come with specific occupational health problems such as injuries from accidents, body pain, eye problems, skin problems, asthma and poisonous bites. Many work as rubber tappers on the local rubber tree plantations, others are drivers of buses, rickshaws or trucks, loaders who carry heavy weights, tailors or agricultural workers. For such circumstances, Bodytree advises 5 days of treatment including building an awareness of structural integration, how to use the body without applying undue stress, yoga and breathing exercises and the learning of simple locally available herbal medicine preparations. | 
