The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) recently launched “Zumbarangay Pilipinas,” a program that aims to promote women’s physical and mental wellbeing.
The program is also dubbed “Solo Exercise On Cam Challenge.”
PSC Commissioner Celia Kiram, in charge of the agency’s Women in Sports programs, spearheaded the national awareness campaign through the online competition amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The PSC believes the current Covid-19 pandemic is now impacting women’s mental and physical health and global studies find women and girls gained weight during the lockdown and research further shows even short term physical inactivity has long-lasting repercussions,” Kiram said.
“For this, we at the PSC mounted a campaign to encourage women and girls to rise and shape up by way of solo exercising through dancing,” she added.
The contest is open to all Filipinas who could come up with a dance workout for at least two minutes. The are four categories— frontliners, women open, girls open and LGBT—with the winner in each class receiving P30,000, and the second and third placers getting P20,000 and P10,000, respectively.
Ten special prizes worth P3,000 each will also be given away.
“It is believed that the need to infuse fun in exercising is highly critical to ward off the brewing anxieties, and for some, the state of depression,” Kiram said. “But overall, we just want to encourage Filipino women and girls to maintain an active lifestyle and boost health by regularly exercising even at home any time.”
For inquiries or more details, interested participants may visit the event’s Facebook page Rise Up and Shape Up.
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