After seven years of serving the Greater Manila Area, the LoveYourself, Inc. officially launches its first community center in Cebu City.
By establishing a community center in Cebu, LoveYourself focuses its attentionto the growing number of HIV cases in Central Visayas, since it already shared 9% (5,773) of the total number of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) since 1984. Throughout the country, there are already 38 HIV diagnoses a day.
To augment the efforts not only in Cebu but throughout the regio, LoveYourself White House provides free and confidential HIV testing and treatment, including education, counseling and life coaching.
Interestingly, the new community center also offers a co-working space with contemporary and hip ambiance that caters to the distinctive taste of Cebuanos. The center also brews free coffee for waiting clients, while either enjoying the wifi services or the murals.
ABOUT LOVEYOURSELF
Self-worth is a powerful determinant of one’s quality of life. It is the self-perception of one’s right to achieve happiness and be given respect, of one’s ability to understand and solve problems, and to triumph in the small and big challenges of life.
LoveYourself believes that self-worth is key to building an empowered community. We exist to ignite in each one an active desire for a healthy and vibrant self-worth, especially among the youth and males who have sex with males (MSMs).
Through awareness, education, counselling, fun social interactions, and activities that weave these elements into a unity, we take delight in spreading our message of the value of self-worth and the critical importance of living oneself.
LoveYourself is the brainchild of Ten Outstanding Young Man of the Philippines (Youth Leadership) and Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Awardee (Humanitarian Leadership), Ronivin (Vinn Garcia Pagtakhan.
He was joined by friends who were inspired by the increasing demand and queries by the Youth & LGBT-MSM through social media such as Twitter on STI, HIV, sexuality and gender. Since 2011, LoveYourself exponentially grew through social networking. With the able support of a core group of concerned and socially aware youth & LGBT-MSM professionals and supporters with diverse ideas and preferences, the membership has now grown to almost 1,100 volunteers from all sectors of society.
WHO WE ARE
LoveYourself is a community of volunteers that aim to reach out to others to propagate ideas, attitudes, and practices that encourage loving oneself - to DARE to be oneself, to CARE for oneself, and to SHARE oneself as a way to multiplying joy.
WHAT WE DO
HIV counseling, testing, treatment and life-coaching. Through our community centers - Anglo in Mandaluyong, LoveYourself Uni in Pasay, Victoria by LoveYourself (RITM Satellite Clinic) in Manila, LoveYourself Welcome in Sampaloc, Manila, Lily by LoveYourself x Diossa in Paranaque City and White House in Cebu - we provide HIV screening, counseling and education to prevent the spread of the epidemic among youth and key affected populations.
HIV awareness for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) and Youth.
We conduct HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns and education seminars in schools, companies and regional communities. We take delight in promoting the value of self-worth and the critical importance of loving oneself as a core intervention against the spread of HIV/AIDS.
LoveYourself also invited the Department of Health-Region VII Regional Coordinator Dr. Van Philip Batan to discuss the HIV situation in Cebu and the efforts that the government is doing to curb the epidemic.
LoveYourself founders Ronivin Pagtakhan and Christopher Lagman explained LoveYourself's humble beginnings and how its young community was able to make an impact to the advocacy here and abroad. Both founders looked forward to the contribution that LoveYouself could make in Cebu in the years to come.
For Cebuanos who want to get themselves checked, LoveYourself White House is located at 40 Don Julio Llorente St., Cebu City. The Center is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00 noon to 9:00 pm with contact number (032) 367-7016.
To know more about LoveYourself and its services, visit www.loveyourself.ph or follow and share its social media channels: Facebook @loveyourself.ph, Twitter @loveyourselfph, and Instagram @loveyourself.ph
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