Building Health Resilience by Harnessing Community Voices in the Pursuit of Wellness

In the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, Bayelsa State may be overwhelmed by flood disaster, bringing to fore the challenge of building health resilience. One way of building community health resilience is by listening to community voices. The paper considers indigenous knowledge and how it can complement non-traditional methods to sustain human and environmental wellbeing. It argues that family is the building block of community health and that community voices should be listened to if community wellness is to be promoted.