LOVE YOURSELF
Love yourself is a social project that consists of
helping depressed teenagers in Barranquilla to overcome their situation through
social networks. Barranquilla, is the capital of the department of Atlántico, Colombia. One of the most common problems in the city is the
depression that teenagers face every day due to personal, familial, or economic situations. But the biggest problem is how to get out of
that depression. The reason why we want to help in this community is because we want to motivate depressed people to overcome depression and not go to extreme cases like suicide.
As a result of that necessity of helping depressed people, we created an account on Instagram called "love.yourself815" and began to send messages to most of the people we know in the way they can know the account and what we are doing. We send messages to approximately 15 persons welcoming to the page and telling them that we are a page where they can trust that everything they share with us will be completely confident. We also took the time to ask each person very personally how they felt at this time of their life where we all are trying to live in the middle of a pandemic.
Based on these questions, we were able to detect that many people have been affected psychologically due to the pandemic, quarantine, not being able to see their families/friends, among others. Since we created this campaign, some people have had the opportunity to speak up and express their feelings without fear of being judged by others. This campaign has allowed many people not to feel alone and in this way to avoid a future depression but also to help overcome a current depression. This campaign could become a community project if we all take the time to know how our neighbor is doing.
This project taught me the value and importance of caring for others. It taught me that there are many people in the real world who are about to lose their lives simply because they did not have someone to talk to at the right time. This project also taught me the importance of good communication, knowing how to express my ideas so that other people can understand them, and the importance of having a clear objective to be able to fulfill it from the beginning.
