Jose Narciso Melchor C.Sescon, John Kennedy C. Jardenil
Kaagapay Support Group for PLWHAs*, Names Project Phils.**

GETTING OLD IN THE NGO IMPLEMENTING AIDS PROGRAMS
BUT GETTING YOUNGER IN IDEAS AND APPROACHES
TO ADDRESSING THE EPIDEMIC LOCALLY

ISSUE:

Contention of many people is to land a good and high paying job. Most people look for lucrative and financially rewarding job and this will help them in reaching their goal in life. This is not true in all aspects and not true to all people. Getting into a job means receiving a good pay. These jobs maybe white collars or skilled work.

DISCUSSION:

Getting a job mean differently to different people. There are many committed people and they look for a different kind of job. Something that has social relevance, not financially rewarding but the accomplishment is different. People like these are people or client centered, they like to serve people and they love to meet, talk and work with people. The authors of t his abstract have been into NGO AIDS work for the past ten years now. They feel so old because they had been in the job for a decade. Since they love to work with people, meet with people and share ideas, they get to learn more new bright, innovative ideas in planning and implementing strategies to addressing HIV/AIDS in their locality. In doing the job people are involve, thus the success of one is the success of all.

CONCLUSION:

No man is an island. People need to communicate with other people. Stakeholders including target beneficiaries should be working together, talking together, planning together to get ideas on how to address AIDS in their locality. Work as a team, then you will not feel old but rather young in ideas and approaches