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By Reiner Grospe Pioneering LOVE Awards hosted by Jerome Lacsa and Franz Baylon  The LoveYourself volunteers and employees are the ones who truly keep the organization at its best. They both share the same earnestness, passion, and tenacity for our common advocacies. The love they put into their work is truly priceless. All of them are dedicated, but nine (9) hearts stood out this year, and made remarkable impacts to the organization as well as to the community we serve.  In view of their outstanding service, LoveYourself annually recognizes its people fondly called Lovers. For this year, the recognition of “Lovers” was officially named as LoveYourself Outstanding Volunteers and Employees (LOVE) Awards. This recognition is given to volunteers and staff who continuously and consistently rendered their services with all their heart and soul, which affected the community, their colleagues and the organization in many positive ways.  The very first LOVE Awards has 5 different...

By Carlos Diego A. Rozul LoveYourself has had a jam packed year this 2019. Spearheading new projects, events, and campaigns, its stronghold of volunteers have been hard at work to spread love and create ripples of positive change in the Philippines. On December 7, 2019, volunteers gathered to look back on the year that was with merriment and recognition at Kink: The LoveYourself Ball. This 2019, LoveYourself has expanded its reach starting with the launch of LoveYourself White House in Cebu, the organization's first community center outside of Metro Manila. Together with its Cebu team, LoveYourself is helping fellow community based organizations nationwide grow in their localities. Most notable was the launch of the Oro Pia Community Center by Kagay-an PLUS . LoveYourself also launched its response to the mental health service gap in the Philippines called Flourish Circle . As a community-driven initiative, it aims to use peer support as a framework to mediate depressive, anxious...