Mar 28, 2020 | Home, Public Health
Are you wondering … How soap and water can help to fight the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic? Why is everyone telling you to wash your hands like you were in elementary school again? How a common, everyday household item become the most significant preventative in our...
Aug 18, 2017 | Haiti, News, Public Health
Headwaters’ most recent trip to Haiti included a public health outreach initiative in the country’s southern region, undertaken with the support of the Ministry of Education. Traveling out from Port-au-Prince, team members distributed printed public health guides...
Jul 19, 2017 | Nepal, News, Public Health
By Dr. Roshan Khatri Recently, our hospital organized a health camp at a place called Bamti Bhandar, a beautiful but remote location bordering the Everest region. It was a three-day camp where we provided free general health care, dental, ophthalmological and...
Apr 17, 2017 | Haiti, News, Public Health
Headwaters is pleased to announce a major donation from SC Johnson of nearly 90,000 cans of OFF!® Deep Woods® and OFF!® FamilyCare personal repellant. This donation will provide families with preventative resources against mosquitoes that may carry disease,...
Nov 9, 2016 | Nepal, News, Public Health
As the only permanent physician in Jiri, Dolakha, a remote area on the trekking route to the Everest region and near the epicenter of the April 25th earthquake and aftershocks that killed 8,000, Dr. Roshan Khatri says that the experience following the quake shaped his...
May 17, 2016 | Haiti, News, Public Health
Headwaters Relief Organization recently learned that children at Life Christian Orphanage have been struck with cholera, an intestinal infection that can be fatal. Already, one staff member has died. Headwaters has been supporting the 36 children at Life Christian for...