Seven Years of #ZeroStigmaPH, Two Full Years of Local Community Service. Countless Stories of Hope.
As we close 2025, we look back with deep gratitude and pride at what we have built together. This year marks two full years of operations of the Camp Neñada Community Center in Angono, Rizal, the flagship community space of CAMP Pag-ayo, Inc., under the Champion Community Centers Network of the PROTECTS-UPSCALE Project supported by the Global Fund, implemented by LoveYourself, Inc. and Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc.
From the very beginning, Camp Neñada was envisioned as a Safe and #NeutralSpace—isang ligtas, malikhaing, at stigma-free na lugar para sa kabataan at marginalized communities. Two years later, that vision is alive and growing. Sa 2025, mas pinalalim namin ang aming work at mas pinalawak ang aming abot—combining arts, mental health, HIV education, research, training, and community empowerment in ways that are grounded, evidence-based, at tunay na makatao.
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🌱 Key Milestones & Accomplishments in 2025
This year, CAMP strengthened its role as a national and community partner for health, culture, and social change. We renewed and expanded strategic partnerships with DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc., formalizing CAMP’s role as consolidator and implementing partner for reproductive health programs across Luzon. We launched and completed multiple batches of HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT) Trainings, culminating in our 33rd HCT training overall, helping build a growing pool of compassionate, stigma-free HIV counselors nationwide.
Sa local level, Camp Neñada was officially recognized as a Youth Development Facility of the Municipality of Angono through our partnership with the Local Youth Development Office—cementing our commitment to youth wellness, creativity, at civic engagement. Sa regional level, partnership with DSWD Regional Office 4A recognizes CAMP Pag-ayo, Inc. as a civil society partner supporting 4Ps beneficiaries across CALABARZON through HIV and sexual health education, mental health support, gender sensitivity, and arts-based stigma reduction. We also expanded academic and youth collaborations with Batangas State University, De La Salle University, and De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, proving na when schools and communities work together, mas lumalakas ang impact.
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🎨 Arts for Stigma Reduction & Cultural Work
2025 was a powerful year for Art as Advocacy. Camp Neñada mounted five major exhibitions—PAGLAYA, BABAE sa LENTE, Kasarian-Kasarinlan, ESPIAL, and Palimpsest of Pride—each creating space for conversations on mental health, gender, sexuality, HIV, identity, and healing. These exhibits featured women artists, LGBTQIA+ creatives, youth from Rizal, and even child artists—showing that art knows no age, no label, and no stigma.
Beyond the gallery, CAMP contributed to large-scale community events like Pride Night 2025, national media platforms such as Teleradyo Serbisyo, Rainbow Radyo Guesting for World Aids Day 2025 and advocacy gatherings for women’s rights, youth empowerment, at HIV awareness. Each brushstroke, photo, performance, and story became a bridge—connecting people to empathy, understanding, at dignity.
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📚 Research, Knowledge, and Innovation
One of our proudest milestones this year was the international publication of the “May Stigma Ba?” research in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior—a rare and powerful moment where a Philippine community-based organization contributed directly to global HIV stigma scholarship. We also supported the continuation of the MSB parent-child HIV communication study, strengthening family-centered approaches to stigma reduction.
In parallel, CAMP completed the #bestmeever Workbook for Healing and Self-Empowerment, a trauma-informed, Taglish-friendly mental health tool designed especially for Persons Living with HIV, with the potential to reach 18,000+ beneficiaries nationwide in partnership with NGO's and Foundations leading the HIV Programs in the Philippines.
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🤝 Partnerships that Made It Possible
None of these would be possible without the trust and collaboration of our partners—LoveYourself, Inc., Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc., Global Fund, Luxecare, DKT Philippines, AHF Philippines, Moleskine Foundation, AIHO, Alegra Busines Consultancy, France Volontaires, AIME, Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency (PNVSCA), Department of Health and it's Regional Offices, LGU Angono, Coach Myke Celis, Lead Researcher Gideon Bendicion, academic institutions, international volunteers, donors like GIZ Manila Office, and our ever-dedicated volunteers and artists. Every MOA signed, every training delivered, every exhibit mounted, and every young person welcomed into Camp Neñada is proof that collective action works.
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🌈 Looking Ahead to 2026
As we step into 2026, we are filled with hope and determination. We are preparing for bigger and better accomplishments—including the expansion of our services to offer PrEP, PEP, STI services, and HIV Treatment, with the goal of becoming an accredited treatment hub. We also look forward to an improved and expanded community center facility, with strong support from Luxecare of LoveYourself, Inc., so we can serve more people, more safely, and more sustainably.
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To our volunteers, partners, supporters, donors, followers, and the general public—salamat sa tiwala, oras, at paniniwala ninyo. After seven years of CAMP Pag-ayo, Inc. and two years of Camp Neñada Community Center, we remain steadfast in our mission: Art for healing. Community for care. ZeroStigma for all.
Here’s to 2026—mas malawak ang abot, mas malalim ang impact, at mas matatag ang laban para sa #ZeroStigmaPH 💛#CreativityForSocialChange
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