The online/virtual dispensary will return in 2022.

1. Herbalists Without Borders International global movement

HERBALISTS WITHOUT BORDERS VICTORIA is part of the global movement of Herbalists Without Borders International. The worldwide movement of Herbalists Without Borders International – including HERBALISTS WITHOUT BORDERS VICTORIA – is a non-denominational, non-partisan movement, independent of all governments, political parties and religious institutions.

2. HERBALISTS WITHOUT BORDERS VICTORIA’s structure

HERBALISTS WITHOUT BORDERS VICTORIA is a democratic organisation comprising members and supporters who work to achieve the objects set out below.

The  organisation is  established  to  be  a  charity  with  the  principal  purpose  of  enacting the Herbalists Without Borders vision for Health Justice;  with the purpose of advancing health, education, social and public welfare and culture, protecting  and enhancing  the  natural  environment and promoting human rights.

In addition to the global vision of Herbalists Without Borders International, HWB Victoria promotes reconciliation, mutual respect and tolerance between groups of individuals that are in Australia.

Herbalists Without Borders Victoria will be registered with Herbalists Without Borders International and must meet all requirements for club endorsement set by Herbalists Without Borders International as established in the HWB global Constitution or Policy.

3. HERBALISTS WITHOUT BORDERS VICTORIA’s values and objectives 

• HWB believes that health and wellness are human rights, not privileges
• HWB recognises many global citizens lack access to primary health and wellness due to economic hardship and other barriers
• HWB promotes health justice and oppression free local and global wellness practices
• HWB engages in volunteer efforts focused primarily on natural and botanical health and wellness solutions via education, prevention, empowerment, grassroots advocacy and organising
• HWB builds a renewed consciousness about conditions created by dominant social and economic institutions that impact all human beings; emphasizing the roles of traditional herbalists and healers who live and work within those systems often experiencing social stigma, pressure, devalued status and sub-standard wages for vital services they provide
• HWB believes that poverty is inherently violent in nature and health services must be accessible and affordable
• HWB embraces non-violence, social justice, health and wellness as means to transform cultural and global trauma and violence
• HWB creates and promotes inter-cultural herbal health education, herbal borderless medicine exchanges and actions via local to global chapters
• HWB promotes the protection and preservation of indigenous herbs and healers, including intellectual property rights that honour and respect the wisdom of both traditional plants and healers globally; regenerating valuable traditional healing wisdom and practices that have been negated, oppressed, misused or extinguished
• HWB educates the public about growing and eating of traditional local healthful natural foods and herbs; relearning and recollecting of everyday traditional cultural healing lifestyles
• HWB supports equitable, sustainable, community-based, fair trade practices pertaining to foods, herbs and botanical products
• HWB embraces grassroots empowerment models and actions, encouraging local people to utilise their own unique community resources to create accessible peoples’ natural medicine clinics and other innovative holistic model projects
• HWB promotes sharing of holistic health and wellness resources and open source information that will assist all people and practitioners
• HWB believes in building foundations of honesty, trust, openness, compassion and collaboration within holistic health and wellness realms
• HWB assists herbalists and other healers with continuous training, education, technical assistance and resources
• HWB believes in creating alternative natural medicine solutions that individuals, communities and countries may begin implementing now
• HWB works to promote, defend and protect the human rights of all people as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations based on the UDHR, as well as in regional codes of human rights which incorporate the rights contained in the UDHR, the provisions to which governments have voluntarily acceded;
• HWB works to encourage, and raise awareness, that every human being possesses rights based on their humanity and that respect for human rights improves people’s lives;