Two events marked to help mental health awareness
TWO EVENTS are to bring together supporters, advocates, carers and the community that will help workers with mental health issues are slated on October 20 and October 27.
“We are hoping to unify the different groups who have a common agenda for the benefit of the workers with mental health problems by bringing them all together in two events dubbed as "Keep Going" which means continuing their lives,” said Leslie Dulfo, co-organizer of “Keep Going! A gathering for mental health.”
Keep Going was used as a tag to literally encourage those suffering from mental health to continue with their lives as persons, members of the family and especially as a worker.
She said on Oct. 20, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., there will be a talk, music, and poetry to inspire those in the sector to go on with their normal lives.
The event will be a mental health awareness campaign at the Baguio-Benguet Community Credit Cooperative (BBCCC) multipurpose hall that will bring together around 100 advocates and “carers”. There will be three speakers who are expected to share their expertise on the topic.
Among them is an advocate who survived post-partum depression, a resident doctor of the Philippine Mental Health center at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC), and an advocate who will share about anxiety and panic disorder.
An advocate who used poetry as a therapy to cope will also share works with the participants.
Contestants for the Mr. And Miss Summer Capital will also join the event to learn more about mental health.
and large tree farms to achieve the administration’s goal of revitalizing the state of the city’s environment.
The city mayor pointed out the importance of the active participation of the residents, especially people with available spaces in their properties, in working out the establishment of ree farms so that the effects of the propagation of trees n confined areas will be realized the soonest.
According to him, he was able to talk to officials of SM Prime holdings to help in the propagation of assorted tree species so that there will be sufficient supply of trees that will be distributed to residents who want to help the local government advance the put up of tree farms for the benefit of the present and future generations.
Pursuant to its previous commitment to plant hundreds of thousands of trees in lieu of the trees that were cut to pave the way for the construction of the SM City Baguio, the company was already ble to pant over 3,0 assorted tree seedlings in different watersheds and government reservations in the different parts of the city and that it is committed to plant an additional 200,000 assorted tree species in various government reservations to help in improving the state of the city’s environment.
One of the present administration’s 15point collective agenda is for the revitalization of the city’s environment through the implementation of aggressive programs, projects and activities that will achieve the said goal within the next f3 years.
He said barangays should also help in the realization of the program by identifying possible areas within their areas of jurisdiction which could be converted into tree farms for the benefit of improving the current state of the city’s environment that will be enjoyed by the present and future generations of inhabitants.