• Friday Session for the Philippines

    Friday Session for the Philippines

    In Hong Kong and feeling like you need a release? Join us for an evening of fun or a good cause.

  • Play for a Cause

    Play for a Cause

    Last week Hong Kong Development Committee members participated in a bartending competition at Play nightclub on our behalf. It was a great turnout for all us and the two other charities involved, with old acquaintances and new friends of Roots of Health coming together to drink for a good cause.

  • Voter Education: Notes from the Field

    Voter Education: Notes from the Field

    “I don’t have a right to vote.” I stood in the hot, meeting area in Aplaya, our community by the sea, in the middle of an education seminar, surrounded by 30 women and a few men and stared in disbelief.

  • How To Save a Life

    How To Save a Life

    When our midwife was alerted to an issue with a newborn’s cord, she soon discovered that it was not the newborn that was in need to critical medical attention, but the mother.

  • RH Bill Voting: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    RH Bill Voting: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    The Reproductive Health Bill that has been languishing in the House of Representatives for the last 15 years has finally been voted on!

Partners

 

International

Each year the Asia Society Asia 21 Fellows select and present the Asia Society Asia 21 Public Service Award to acknowledge projects and organizations which benefit underprivileged social and economic groups, communities, and the public in the Asia-Pacific region. Roots of Health is the 2011 recipient of this award. The Award consists of prize money and the active support of the Asia 21 Fellows class in providing Roots of Health with access to the Fellows’ network for program development.

 

Barclays Capital is a socially responsible organisation, actively involved in providing both financial and volunteering support to charities on a global basis. The firm believes in responsibility, initiative and partnership. Barclays Capital has been a repeat funder for our community programing since 2010.programming.

 

Created by the global advocacy organization, Women Deliver, Catapult is a digital hub driving donations to organizations working to improve the lives of girls and women because investing in girls and women strengthens families, communities and nations.

 

Roots of Health also received a donation from Durex Condoms, Philippines. The donation was in recognition of our work teaching young people about safer sex and preventing teenage pregnancies. Catapult is currently featuring six of our projects on its crowd-funding platform.

 


Global Fund for Women plays a leading role in advancing women’s rights by making grants that support and strengthen women’s groups around the world. They mobilize and redistribute resources that enable women to develop creative solutions to local, regional, and transnational challenges. This grant has allowed Roots of Health to maintain our services to our communities and expand our college program.

 

Google Grants empowers nonprofit organizations, through in-kind AdWords™ advertising, to promote their missions and initiatives on Google.com. As a member of the program, Roots of Health is not charged a transaction fee for donations made through Google Checkout. The grant has also allowed Roots of Health to advertise using Google platforms to reach a wider audience.

 

National

Exempli Gratia is a group of ordinary individuals who are committed to share their passion, talent, time and resources for the common good of the Filipino nation. Exempli Gratia aims to do its part through concrete acts of nation-building, allowing its members to band together and help one another, letting out the hero in each of them. Exempli Gratia with Bayanihan ng Palawan sponsored a Saturday Nutritional Support Program and donated slippers and toothbrushes for the mothers and children.Exempli Gratia is a group of ordinary individuals who are committed to share their passion, talent, time and resources for the common good of the Filipino nation.

Provinical

Palawan Lodge 99 of the Free and Accepted Masons, Puerto Princesa City, is a brotherhood of Men dedicated to the ideals of benevolence, freedom, and love of fellowmen. Social service to the community is one of its projects. In order to have a continuing and sustained project, the Lodge passed a resolution to concentrate its social service to the residents of Pulang Lupa, seeking to partner with Roots of Health in its programs in the area. Palawan Lodge 99 has donated 5 water purifiers as well as school materials for the Educational Support Program.

Bayanihan ng Palawan

 

Bayanihan ng Palawan is a group of young civic-minded professionals who are willing to share their passion, talent, time and resources for the common good of Palawan. Bayanihan ng Palawan is a non-profit community-service organization. One of its main purpose are; service & livelihood to the community, personal growth and improvement, fellowship to mankind and self-help for the disadvantaged. Bayanihan ng Palawan with Exempli Gratia, sponsored a Saturday Nutritional Support Program and donated slippers and toothbrushes for the mothers and children.