Thank you for allowing Project Red Ribbon to be part of this endeavour. Your success is the advocacy's success.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston S. Churchill
"We honestly never expected to win, we gave upon even before we finished the shoot. We just told ourselves that it is fine if we don not win, but knowing that we helped someone through our docu, that we helped to eradicate people's misconception about HIV and letting both the PLHIV and the non-PLHIV know of the truth behind HIV is more than enough for us. Parea na din gaming nanalo. Kumbaga we already prepared ourselves for the completely opposite outcome.
We are really thankful for all this blessings, it will not be possible if not for those who helped us, not only in our docu but for opening our eyes and making us aware of HIV and to what we can do to help them. We are really thankful of course, first to our family who supported us all the way, sa pag tolerate ng late na naming uwi, sa pag encourage sa amin na kaya naming magawa ng maayos ang docu. Thank you to Ma'am Jinia❤❤❤, who gave us the chance to do a documentary and yet again let us realize what our capabilities and strengths are. To our friends who motivated us, to all Abcomm and Commpress for supporting us all the way and especially to Sir Billy, Sir Jaydee, Sir Andee, Sir Rogeselle, Ate Audrey and to all the members of The Red Ribbon Project ❤. Also, to Mama Pink, Sir Van, Sir Mike, Kuya Nan and to the Bahaghari Advocacy💞. Both of those organizations did not only gave us a story to tell, but we also found a friend in them as well. Lastly, to God☝ who made all of this possible, who guided us every step of the way and for giving us this chance to show our abilities and talents and for the chance to learn a lot of lessons from this experience.
I know this moment will be precious and cherished by each one of us. All the hardships, stress and mishaps are all worth it!👏👏👏
From all of this, what we've learned is that, it is never an option to give up, we should keep on trying because we cannot achieve success without experiencing failure and also to the community, PLHIV's aren't the enemy, they are people who needs our support not our discrimination and judgement. Just like what Sir Billy says: FIGHT HIV, NOT THE PERSON LIVING WITH HIV."