About Us

ROOTS

       HEALS was established in 2008 specifically to address the growing health needs of communities in the Eastern Visayas region . The founding members, advocates of community medicine, decided to form a group which would embody the primary health care approach –  affordable, accessible, appropriate, and available health for all. 

VISION

   HEALS envisions a society where poverty, hunger, inequity and oppression have been eliminated; a society where basic needs, are recognized in policy and practice as basic rights and not just a privilege of a few. Health care shall be relevant, affordable, accessible and responsive to the needs of the people.  Health shall be a right and a responsibility shared by health workers and the entire citizenry. 

MISSION

 HEALS shall support and assist village health organizations in the Eastern Visayas region in setting up an alternative, relevant health care system at the community level.

GOALS

1.  To assist in the formation and establishment of a people-managed health care system at the community level and ensure mechanisms for access to all levels and types of health care services.

2. To uphold health as a human right and promote the physical, mental, and social  well-being of individuals and society.

STRATEGIES

1.  Organizing and Networking

2.  Advocacy and public information

3.  Education and Training

4.  Provision of basic health services

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

1.  Village-level Health Care

a.  Basic Health Services and Education

b.  Training of Volunteer Health Workers (health, personal development, management and leadership skills)

c.  Health Organizational Building (Regional Health Network

2.  Direct Health Services

a.  Walk-in Clinic

b.  Referral Network

c. Promotion of Herbal

 and Complementary

 Medicines

d.  Medical missions 

      3.  Community Health Human   Resource Development

        a.  Student Immersion Program

        b.  Pool of Medical Volunteers

         






4.  Networking

  a. Institutional Partnerships

  b.  Resource Development

5.  Advocacy, Public Information and Research

a.  Data Banking and Information Systems Development

  i.  Health Modules and References

  ii.  Updates on health news, indicators, and policies

b.  Advocacy—Local and International

c.  Research on Community Health/Traditional Medicine

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES AND PARTNERS

Project/Activity

•Establishment of a Community-based health program/ Basic Health Skills Training of volunteer health workers

• Villareal, Samar
• General MacArthur, Eastern Samar
• Las Navas, Northern Samar

•Medical Missions

• Matuguinao, Samar
• Las Navas, Northern Samar
• Carigara, Leyte
• Gamay, Northern Samar
• Lope De Vega, Northern Samar