As the struggles in life continue to grow, many people find that they have run out of coping mechanisms that can help them to get through. It may only take one small act to send a person over the edge where they may contemplate or even commit suicide. Regardless of the reason behind the person turning their thoughts toward suicide, it is important that this sinful option is irreversible and not the right solution for their problems. Over the years, suicide has become the major problem in the world being one of the three leading causes of death. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 800,000 people a year take their own lives. That amounts to 1 death every 40 seconds and that number doesn’t incorporate those who have failed in their attempts or those that may have think about it but never acted upon it. Suicide is an unfortunate occurrence that happens among all age groups. In the Philippines, at least six individuals commit suicide everyday and most of these cases were teenagers who are prone to suffer stress and depression brought by family problems, school pressure and failed relationships. However, even though suicide is a fairly common occurrence and has been happening for many years, people are still reluctant to talk about or deal with it.

The project’s main purpose is to broadcast how meaningful life is behind those toxic medicines and firearms. It also informs people worldwide that suicide deserves to be taken away on our own vocabulary and is never an answer to end problems and to run away from our responsibilities in life. Problems are just variables in life that serve as a learning experience to us and can never be solve without the presence of humanity. It seeks to empower communities and each individual around the world to help suppressed suicide rates by helping each one of us being alert to the warning signs. It also promotes self-protection to help those who are feeling suicidal to stay safe. Together, let us connect to one another and prevent social isolation.

“Love Yourself Campaign” is an online project that tends to produce a series of blogs and sites using different kinds of internet media that will help to spread awareness and education about suicide. The team will create a website through the use of Wix that will showcase the information of project including its plans and purpose. Facebook will also be used by creating a page that will be used as a medium to encourage huge audiences to remove their suicidal thoughts by sharing motivation quotes and messages. The page will also be interactive to its audience by using the comment section and message board for sharing their thoughts, ideas, and inspirational stories of their personal experiences. Twitter will also be necessary because it will focus on tweets that contain short inspirational messages and will act as a bridge to access other webpages. Instagram will mainly focus on the uploading of high-quality images that contain messages about suicide including its causes and prevention. Piktochart and Fotor will also be used to make high-quality infographics and images to make the webpages pleasing for its visitors. Usage of English language and availability of language code-switching in the host web applications will make the campaign not only for Filipinos but also to international audiences.

The Love Yourself Campaign is a non-profit project but the team is open for donations. The project will use free services of said web applications – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Wix, Piktochart and Fotor. Minimal costs will be spent for printing, computer rental, and other needed services. The project is expected to be launched and completed in two weeks.