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  By: Gello Ganon, John Bulanadi Cez Golez "I'm just happy to help out," says Cecilia "Cez" Golez, full-time social media marketing consultant and part-time philanthropist who recently held a photoshoot for the benefit of LoveYourself . #PopUpPortraitsPH and the Trio Pop Up Portraits , Cez's brainchild, is a photoshoot with a cause that began in August 2015. Along with 32-year old Mica Ferrer, graphic designer, and Vince Ascalon, a 34-year old creative director, Cez, 34, jump started Pop Up Portraits  in a living-room-turned-studio. Armed with tenure in photography, sufficient equipment, and a pint of spontaneity, the trio invited close friends and family to be the prime subjects of their first  Pop Up Portraits  project. They settled in employing monochrome as their preferred theme at the time, reflecting both elegance and simplicity. To cap off its first year, the trio was able to raise funds for their first beneficiary, Caring Jesus Elementary School, a m

By Jan Gabriel Castañeda The HIV crisis has gone on for four decades, and for four decades the world has struggled against it. Doctors, scientists, educators, policy makers, writers, artists -- people of all walks and all colors have, in their own ways, sought to make sense of this crisis and its relationship with society. From citizens to states, from medicine to prayer, from cures to cries for reform, people’s visions of how to respond to the crisis are as diverse as the people who bear its scars. The goal of this series is to give you a glimpse of these visions: the roles people of different passions and disciplines have played in this crisis that, as of March 2016 as recorded by the Department of Health’s Epidemiology Bureau, is infecting 25 Filipinos daily. The phrase "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is a troublesome one. Besides being an adage to a complicated colonial heritage, it's not even that good (native fruits like langka and durian are far more nut

Last September 10, Batch Bahandi’s Sarimanok graciously soared to take part in Love Yourself’s roost. They are the 37 new recruits who underwent a thorough screening process to complete this year’s 3 rd set of volunteers. This 2016, LoveYourself kick-started the assimilation of concepts from the three main island groups of the Philippines (LuzViMinda) in coming up with batch names for the new volunteers. This rebranding reflects LoveYourself’s intent to promote patriotism and tolerate diversity among its volunteers. This trend took off with Kinaadman (Cebuano for “wisdom”) to represent Visayas, followed by Magayon (Bicolano for “beautiful”) to embody Luzon and finally capped by Bahandi to signify Mindanao. Bahandi , the chosen batch name for the new set of volunteers, actually came from Pamahandi , a lower god of the Higaunon people of Northern Mindanao, who is believed to have dominion over treasures and properties. From Pamahandi came the word Bahandi, a Cebuano term, denoting