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ROOTS OF HEALTH

ANNUAL REPORT 2015

S E Q U O I A C L U B

Roots of Health Annual Report 2015 1

NOTES FROM PALAWAN

2015 was Roots of Health’s most incredible year yet.

It was a year of major scaling of our programming in

order to reach more women and young people not only in Puerto Princesa City, but in the whole province of

Palawan.

During the year, we significantly expanded our

programming for young people in high schools. In addition to our existing Reproductive Health curriculum,

we also taught young people about puberty, and about Tuberculosis. We not only taught in all the major high

schools in our city, but we also expanded our

programming into northern and southern Palawan. Our team of traveling teachers taught at schools from Narra in

the south to Roxas in the north, and a number of municipalities in between. The team found that the need

for information – and the eagerness to get it – increased

with the remoteness of the area. (There are still high schools in Palawan with neither electricity nor cell phone

service!) Our team became so adept and skilled at teaching and managing large groups of students, that they

started thinking an audience of only 50 or 60 was quite a

small group! Over the year, our team taught 15,192 young people about their health and how to protect it. Given

Palawan’s high rate of teen pregnancy, we are so pleased to have taught so many young people and believe their

newfound knowledge will help them avoid unplanned

pregnancies and stay in school.

In 2015, we continued providing maternal health education workshops, clinical services and training for

Community Health Advocates (CHAs) to nine resource-

poor and isolated communities in Puerto Princesa. Recognizing that the further away from the city center we

get, the greater the need is for information and services, we piloted a program of service delivery to two

communities outside Puerto Princesa’s central business

district. Because these communities (Candes Dos and Talaudyong, both in barangay Bacungan) are very isolated

and difficult to access, there has been a high demand for our services. We’ve had to adjust our workshops, service

delivery and CHA training since we can only go to these

communities twice a month. However at the close of the year we felt secure knowing that our model for service

delivery outside our city is one that can work. We will continue to tweak and adjust this model as needed in

2016, in order to reach even more women and girls who

need our services and programming.

L E T T E R S F R O M P A L A W A N


Knowing that 2015 would be the last year of our Financial

Literacy programming, we sought to make as big of an impact as possible by reaching greater numbers of people

with basic finance knowledge and skills in order to

empower them to manage their finances more wisely. We taught 113 women within our communities using our

traditional style of classroom-based training. In addition

to this, we also trained 22 of our Community Health Advocates who had already completed our Financial

Literacy course on how to teach their peers the basics of

Financial Literacy. With our support, our CHAs then taught 716 of their peers some of the most important basic

information regarding finances, bringing the total number of community members educated to 851. We also

launched an Enterprise Development program which

started with 100 women participating in workshops on the various aspects of starting a small business and

culminated with us awarding small grants to 12 women entrepreneurs who made business plans and proposals for

starting their own small businesses. Finally, we created a

financial literacy program geared for young people focused on wise spending, saving, and employability.

When I think back to 2009 when Susan, Marcus and I

started Roots of Health, I don’t think any of us could have

dreamed that in six short years, we would be helping change lives and improving health outcomes to the extent

that we’re doing today. Thank you for supporting us along this incredible journey!

Amina Evangelista Swanepoel - Executive Director


Roots of Health is guided by the Human Rights Framework.. We firmly believe that when individuals are provided with information about their health and the ability to act on it they can and will change their lives.

All of our programs are therefore structured to provide women with as much relevant information as possible in a way that is easily accessible to our clients. All of our education programs are delivered in Filipino, are age appropriate and culturally sensitive.

VISION & STRATEGY



Palawan, also known as the Last Frontier, is a poor province and is undeveloped in comparison to the rest of the country. It has high rates of maternal mortality, teenage pregnancy, and a rapidly increasing rate of HIV infection.

At Roots of Health, we work in and around the capital of Puerto Princesa as well as neighboring communities, and other municipalities in Palawan.

The provincial government has actively cut funding for reproductive health programs due to religious and personal reasons. This has left many women without access to reliable contraceptives.

While the Puerto Princesa Health Office has made strides to improve maternal health, local health centers are severely understaffed and underfunded.

Young people throughout the province do not receive reproductive health education in schools. Sex is rarely discussed in families, except in terms of being sinful and forbidden, and young people are having sex at increasingly younger ages.

Lacking accurate information from their schools or their parents, young people have to rely on their friends and questionable sources on TV or the Internet. This self-education leads to belief in myths and misconceptions about sex and high rates of teenage pregnancy.

Palawan

PHILIPPINES

WHERE WE WORK

Source: Palawan Provincial Health Office

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Source: Puerto Princesa Health Office



In the last quarter of the year, Roots of Health started to work on its new expansion site in Barangay Bacungan, which is a 45 minute drive from the city center. In coordination with the local government unit and local health center staff we conducted a comprehensive baseline survey and selected two sites within Bacungan, Talaudyong and Candes II. Talaudyong is very isolated and has no mobile phone access or electricity. Candes II is less isolated, but has poorer reproductive health indicators.

Because the new sites are further from the city than our other communities we opted to maximize our time and resources and employed a new strategy for the education component. Instead of the nine maternal health sessions that we have done in other project sites, we taught two three-hour sessions to cover the most important topics. Workshops covered the importance of

family planning, the reproductive systems and their functions, maternal health and pre and post natal care.

Over 100 women attended the sessions. Upon the completion of the classes we trained 10 Community Health Advocates between the two communities. We are now seeing the number of women accessing our services steadily increase. We intend to closely monitor and evaluate the impact of the new strategy and possibly use it for future expansion.

Providing the services needed to promote health, safety, and autonomy for women and children

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

C O M M U N I T Y D E V E L O P M E N T


CONTRACEPTIVE ACCEPTORS PROGRAM

2015 has been a year of scaling up. We have increased

our number of contraceptive acceptors by over 100%.

Part of this has been our service delivery to new

communities, but a large number of women have been

accessing services at our office in the city.

We started providing services in our office to women

who live in a nearby informal settlement. As word has

spread about our compassionate staff and our free

services, the number of clients has increased. This

despite the fact that our office is located on the fourth

floor of a building with no elevator — no easy feat for

pregnant women.

Many women are interested in the sub-dermal implants that our staff have been trained to insert. This

hormonal method prevents pregnancy for three years.

We are happy to give them these as they are more

reliable than short term methods of contraception.

Midwife May Arzaga inserts a subdermal contraceptive implant into the arm of a woman on Balabac Island.

In October we began a partnership with the Philippine

Navy to provide services to remote island

communities. For the first mission we traveled to

Balabac, an island off the southern tip of Palawan. The

demand for services was overwhelming and we were

moved by the poverty of the residents. A 17 year old

girl who already had three children approached us for

an implant. After the consultation we gave her a

pregnancy test. It was unfortunately positive. They

met another women who at 30 years old already had

11 children. These are the women we aim to help. We

plan to do more such missions in 2016.

21%

79%

Short Term MethodsLong Acting Methods

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74%

25%

OfficeCommunitiesOutreach

8%

68%

24%

AdolescentsAdultsTeenagers

Contraceptive Users by Method

Contraceptive Users by Age

Contraceptives Accessed In



HEALTHY PREGNANCY PROGRAM

Not only have we seen more women accessing

prenatal care this year, but we have also gone to great

lengths to improve our monitoring and evaluation of

the Healthy Pregnancy Program.

The numbers reveal a positive impact on the maternal

and child health of women in our communities.

We also have many women access services in our

office in the city. This is partly due to our competent,

friendly staff, and free prenatal vitamins. Our staff has

been trained to read an ultrasound, and are on the

lookout for abnormalities. If they detect any, they refer

the woman to a ob-gyn. These detections have resulted

in early detection of potential problems for many women who would not otherwise have known their

pregnancies were high-risk.

Two mothers pose with their babies a day after delivering.

With the support of the Korean International

Cooperation Agency (KOICA) we have been able to

pay for indigent women and women with high-risk

pregnancies to give birth in clinics and hospitals,

which boosted the number of women we serve giving

birth in facilities to 92%.

Our staff is available to women who choose to have

one of our midwives deliver their baby. In one such

case a 17-year old mother choose to have midwife,

May Arzaga deliver her baby. Unfortunately the baby

was not breathing when it came out. May swiftly

performed rescue breathing on the infant and after

several efforts the baby let out a long, loud wail. The

mother and baby are now happy and healthy.

Midwife May Arzaga performing rescue breathing on a newborn.



Community Health Advocates Program

It’s been a great year for the Community Health

Advocates. The program has increased from 33 to 52

CHAs serving 11 communities. The CHAs continue to

support the Clinical Team by providing assistance

during clinical services for both prenatal and family planning services.

During the course of the year, with the support of our

generous funders KOICA, Palawan Center for

Population and Development (PCPD), and the Korea

Foundation for International Health Care (KOFIH), we

conducted four general assembly trainings. In January

we trained the CHAs on Tuberculosis. They learned

the history of TB, its transmission, and treatment. We

also trained them on how to teach community members about TB, and gave them information on TB

testing, how to care for TB patients, and how to

conduct referrals.

CHA, Leni Salvador records the blood pressure of a pregnant woman in her community.

During the second quarter, the CHAs participated in a

Basic First Aid workshop. This was a continuation of

the First Aid training they had in 2014. This time they

were trained on proper wound dressing, splinting, and

bandaging. The CHAs say these skills are very useful

because they do this kind of work in their

communities.

A newly trained group of CHAs

In July, CHAs were trained on ROH Advocacy, Spot

Mapping and Communication Skills. In this training,

the CHAs focused on the concept of advocacy and

how to communicate effectively with clients in their

communities.

Finally, we conducted a workshop on Stress

Management at the end of the fourth quarter. During

the session, the CHAs identified their stressors in their

personal as well as health worker experiences. Following some strategies and tips, they now have a

better understanding of how to cope with the

problems they encounter and how they can minimize

the stressors in their lives.

CHA learn the breast exam song during a training. The song helps them remember how to check for abnormal lumps.



Because our Community Health Advocates all have

very busy lives in addition to their work with us, they

asked us to conduct refresher courses for them on some

of the topics we covered before. We conducted review

sessions for Fertility Awareness and Modern Family

Planning Methods, the Importance of Pap Smear tests,

Age of Gestation & Expected Date of Delivery

computation that can be used to predict due dates for

pregnant women during clinical services, some scientific and technical aspects on how body systems

work, and the basics of HIV. These were done on a

monthly basis, usually in small group settings. All

these incorporated the enhancement of their

communication skills and how to engage effectively

with clients.

Before the year ended, we had the opportunity to look

back with the CHAs and reflect on all the things they

experienced as volunteer health workers and what they

learned throughout the year. They said that this year

had been really great and that they looked forward to

another fabulous year of women’s health and excellent

services.

FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAM

Our Financial Literacy team had an excellent year,

making leaps and bounds with two new communities,

teaching in high schools and implementing an

Enterprise Development project.

This year, we integrated Fin Lit with other programs to

include questions relevant to family planning topics,

such as family budgeting and preparing financially for

children, giving women context-specific examples that

were applicable in their own lives.

A new development this year was the utilization of our

Community Health Advocates (CHAs) as peer

mediators between Roots of Health and the people in the community. Our CHAs took the place of the

Community Financial Advisor (CFA) program we tried

implementing last year, which ultimately did not

succeed due to cultural attitudes towards discussing

incomes and personal finance. Instead of discussing

finances, we trained 22 CHAs to be responsible for

conducting mini trainings around their communities.

A Financial Literacy student explains how she would spend her money in a month given a limited budget.

These CHAs did an incredible job not only reaching

more women in each community, but also reaching

young people, students, and men as well, spreading

financial literacy knowledge in extensive networks.



We also introduced financial literacy training to seniors

at local public high schools to help young people face

their finances. We covered needs versus wants, debt

and informed borrowing, as well as tips for

strengthening employability as the students looked

ahead to joining the workforce. The women enjoyed

the sessions, which were lively and engaging.

Finally, we launched an Enterprise Development

project spearheaded by our Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID) Fellow, Laura

Clayton. Following informative sessions on enterprise

development and how to actually plan for and start a

small business, women were given an opportunity to

create their own business plans. In July, 11 women out

of a pool of 28 applicants were awarded modest grants

to start small businesses in their own communities. The

business ventures ranged from food products to

printing services, all of which were implemented in

each woman’s respective community.

Financial Literacy participants share a moment with Financial Literacy Director Aika Pagusara during a lesson on better budgeting.

To support the budding entrepreneurs, we created a

mentoring program that paired experienced business

mentors from Junior Chamber International (JCI Kaio)

and Palawan State University with each of the

community women. Our community entrepreneurs

now form the Women’s Enterprise Peer Network

(WEPN). WEPN aims to establish communication

skills that will help business owners succeed, to

provide a collaborative platform to discuss and

analyze ideas and business challenges, and to boost the

women’s confidence and build ability to self-organize.

Besides helping generate income for women, the

Enterprise Development project also stimulates active

cash flow within each community.

On-going support has been provided to WEPN

entrepreneurs through project site visits and meetings to discuss initial progress and reflect on the successes

and challenges in establishing the businesses,

especially during the initial month of operation. To

keep track of the livelihood projects the women submit

quarterly financial reports and have continuous

meetings with their mentors and WEPN.

We ended the Financial Literacy program in December

2015. Although are sad that the program has come to

an end, we are delighted that over the last three years of the program, we empowered women and young

people to take control of their finances and become

financially literate. At the close of 2015, we had taught

113 community women and 1,607 high school students.

Our CHAs also taught 716 community members,

making this our best year for financial literacy training.

29%

5% 66%

Youth ClassesClassesCHA Peer-to-Peer

W O R K I N C O M M U N I T I E S


VERTICAL GARDEN PROGRAM

A woman holds up a handful of vermicompost.

Last year we began training women to make their own

compost using compost worms. This year we set up 43

compost worm beds in our communities. Each woman

received training on how to take care of the worms and

how to use the compost efficiently. We are proud that

they were soon producing more than they needed.

Our goal in this was to make the project more

sustainable because we were close to saturation point.

All the women who wanted a Vertical Garden had one.

That time has now come and so although we are sad to

end this program we are happy to know that we have

changed lives with it.

A Vertical Garden with peppers and leafy greens growing in it.

Before the year ended, we made sure that all the women

in the program knew that it would be ending. We

collected all the gardens that were no longer in use and

returned the deposits on them. This is the reason for the

lower number of total gardens in the communities for

the year.

In 2015 we set up 31 gardens, which brought the total

number of gardens in our communities to 312. 47 Vertical Gardens were returned, which leaves the

remaining number of gardens in the communities at 265.

The gardens will remain in the communities and we

hope that they will continue to be used for many years

to come.


HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM

2015 was a year of scaling up in terms of students taught, and areas covered. With two new teachers hired

in February, we started to expand outside Puerto

Princesa’s immediate neighborhoods and into the

neighboring municipalities of Roxas, Narra, and

Aborlan. We also enlarged our curriculum by adding a

puberty module for grades 7 and 8, in addition to the

RH module for grades 9 and 10. Puberty quickly grew to

include Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and

Expression (SOGIE). We also began a TB program, in

which we taught high school students how to recognize and access treatment for tuberculosis, a disease that is

still prevalent in Palawan. The aim was to motivate high

schoolers to share information with their families and

encourage them to seek treatment if they were exhibiting

symptoms. The TB program was carried out through

DetecTB, supported by the Korea Foundation for

International Healthcare (KOFIH).

Because of the distances involved in reaching municipal

schools, we maximized our time by staying overnight in a number of towns. Sometimes, when the student body

was big enough, we taught Health Fair style, featuring

booths around the peripheries of a gym or covered

court, with charts of the reproductive systems, a place

where you could see and ask questions about a range of

contraceptives, a genderbread diagram for discussing

SOGIE, and a question booth. Thanks to the continued

support of EMpower, we taught RH and Puberty to

more than 4,000 students; we presented our TB module

to over 14,000 students.

Engaging youth to make informed, healthy decisions for their present and future lives

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Y O U T H D E V E L O P M E N T


In late July, we reached a huge milestone: Roots of

Health was formally approved by Puerto Princesa’s

Department of Education! This formal approval was

great news for us, as it will be easier to navigate school

administrations in order to plan and schedule future

Reproductive Health (RH) sessions. Perhaps even more encouraging, the approval also shows how RH

education is gaining traction, acceptance, and

popularity, ultimately fueling our goal of stimulating

productive conversat ions about sexual and

reproductive health topics for more young people in

Palawan.

YOUTH ADVOCATES

Youth Advocates learn about leadership, TB and reproductive health at

a Summer Camp.

Because it was becoming increasingly difficult to coordinate meetings with the High School Student

Health Advocates (SHAs), we integrated the concept of

the SHAs with the Youth Advocates (YA) program. Our

YAs, who are based in our neighboring communities,

form important teen peer networks in their areas, and

we teach them topics ranging from sexual health to

reaching goals. Our hope is that the YAs will

disseminate what they learned into their communities

and high schools. Meetings with each YA group were

previously once every two weeks, but we increased the frequency to every week in order to maintain a closer

connection with the kids and to retain attendance. We

now have two YA groups in Aplaya, one in Magsasaka,

one in Pulang Lupa, and one in Unang Lahi.

(Late last year, a terrible tragedy occurred in Aplaya

when a young girl was sexually assaulted and

murdered. An Aplaya CHA alerted us initially about the event because they did not know what to do. Since

the nature of the murder was such a shock, it was

difficult for community members to start a

conversation about reacting to the event. Our teaching

staff came in and facilitated an open conversation

about loss and emotions, as well as safety precautions

for the YAs and other Aplaya kids. One of our teachers,

Joie Go, fulfilled the role of a grief counselor, and there

was a very fruitful and frank discussion about how the

kids felt: sadness, shame, pity. Although it was an emotionally taxing session, we noticed afterwards that

the Aplaya YAs became quite receptive and

enthusiastic about our lessons. It showed that we were

fulfilling a need in their community, and since then our

Aplaya groups have remained among our strongest

YAs in the program.)

Looking forward, we are planning to expand our YA

program and are continuing to find ways to get even

more kids in the communities involved, especially in communities where teen pregnancy rates remain high.

Y O U T H D E V E L O P M E N T


SPOTLIGHT: USAPANG K RADIO SHOW

Radio show hosts Joie Go, Amie Perez, and Jan Servando

While the teaching team extended their reach far

beyond the city of Puerto Princesa, there are still many

hard to reach areas where knowledge about adolescent

reproductive health and behavior are inadequately

addressed. In an effort to address this inequity, in 2015

we branched into the new field of radio shows and

created our very own show called Usapang K (Talk K)!

Every Saturday afternoon, members of our fantastic teaching team went to a local radio station, where they

performed a live show aimed at boosting knowledge

among young people. Usapang K addressed common

questions, concerns, and situations that are relevant to

adolescents, filling gaps in knowledge. It provided

young people with resources that they otherwise would

not have access to.

Talking about sex in the Philippines is often taboo --

sexual health can be a sensitive topic and young people are often worried about the social stigma or

embarrassment associated with discussing sex and

contraception with people they know. So, we kept the

tone of the shows casual and conversational. We also

featured guests speakers from the community to talk

about their own experiences, and had a weekly Q&A

session for listeners to call or text in with any questions

during the show. In these ways, we found a unique

way to get young people interested in topics pertinent

to their lives, as well as engaged a broad range of local

people to actively participate in our show, forging a

collaborative connection with our neighboring

communities. And although it is difficult to estimate

how many people listened to the program, lots of

young people texted in each Saturday, and many people posted on the show’s Facebook page, especially

when more controversial subjects were discussed.

Several participants in meetings in Puerto Princesa

mentioned that where they come from, Usapang K was

the only exposure they had ever had to reproductive

health education.

The shows were lively and we had lots of young people texting in their

answers to questions we posed.



Jeri Abenoja M&E Manager

Jay Arguelles Driver

Meryl Arzaga Midwife Emysue Ballares Teacher

Geo Bayron Midwife Aizeel Cajayon Midwife

Jury Castro Teacher

Robelle Cortezano Community Director Daisy Ellorquez Nurse

Eric Ellorquez Driver Susan Evangelista Youth Director

Joie Go Teacher

STAFF

Gehnefer Lavirez Bookkeeper

Gharry Moreno Vertical Gardens Coordinator

Kristina Orlido M&E Officer Rica Pacaldo Admin Assistant

Robaika Pagusara Financial Literacy Program Director Scheherazaide Pahm Teacher

Amie Perez Teacher

Ivann Polizon Teacher Connie Samsona Teacher

Jan Servando Teacher Ami Swanepoel Executive Director

Marcus Swanepoel Operations Director

Our staff is our greatest asset.

We spend a lot of time training

and mentoring each individual.

We feel honored to be working

with such a dedicated, competent

group of people. As we have

grown, we have managed to

attract individuals who have

helped us improve our services

and have a greater impact in the

communities that we serve.


Our Board of Directors in New York City is responsible for overseeing governance, finances, programming and fundraising.

Marty Dewees (Treasurer) Justine Fonte Sabrina Hermosilla Suneeta Kaimal Christine Moran (Secretary) Keefe Murren Rachelle Ocampo Mae Podesta (Vice President) Stephanie Schmidt (President) Blanka Wolfe

Our Advisory Committee is based here in the Philippines and is responsible for guiding Roots of Health by providing logistical, strategic and technical support. In 2015 we asked two Community Health Advocates and two Youth Advocates to join the Committee to increase the feedback from our clients.

Annablle Agustin Pamela Cajilig Carlos Celdran Marcelito Cosicol Jr. Geraldine Gabay Mae Legazpi Junice Melgar Narcy Mikkelson Angelica Ormido

GOVERNANCE

Above: Members of the Philippine Advisory Committee after a meeting in Palawan. Missing are Carlos Celdran and Junice Melgar.

Above: Board member Mae Podesta visited Palawan to work on our strategic plan.



FELLOWS Laura Clayton Australia Volunteers for International Development Kawthar Muhammad Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Caitlyn Warthin Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

INTERNS Wenbo Bai Wellesley College Allison Bautista Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Olivia Dumont Wellesley College

Elizabeth Olsen Wellesley College

VOLUNTEERS Kelly Atkinson Lisa Huelsmann

Maryann Gonong Saad Malik

VOLUNTEERS

Above left: AVID fellow Laura Clayton and Financial Literacy teacher Shera Pahm.

Above right: Wellesley interns Elizabeth Olsen and Wenbo Bai put in a lot of work, but also made time for exploring the island.

Below left: Columbia fellows Caitlin Warthin and Kawthar Muhammad.

Below right: Allison Bautista tests out a puberty activity with students at a local high school.


FINANCIAL REPORT

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES as of 31st December 2015

Unrestricted Restricted Total

Revenues $76,802.12 $147,389.71 $224,191.83

– Expenses $244,815.72 Change in net assets -$20,623.89

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION as of 31st December 2015

Assets

Current Assets $165,615.79 Fixed Assets $17,757.70 Total Assets $183,573.49

Liabilities and Equity

Accounts Payable $10,907.72 Equity $172,665.77 Total Liabilities and Equity $183,573.49

2015 Exchange Rate: $1 USD = 46.85 PHP

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Expenses by Program



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