Roots of Health

Roots of Health (Ugat ng Kalusugan) is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of women and girls, and their communities, in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, in the Philippines. We foster self reliant women, young people, and families in Palawan to lead healthy lives by providing education and services to change attitudes and behaviors. Roots of Health empowers women and girls to secure their right to health and freedom from violence, and to support and protect the health and well-being of their families. Our target communities are young people and poor women who are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects associated with a lack of reproductive health education unemployment, education disruption, abuse, illness, and malnutrition, etc. We seek opportunities to break this negative cycle and have created a community-centered multi-pronged approach that utilizes educational outreach as the cornerstone to build trust and share knowledge and life skills. Our aim is ...