LEO Pharma Supports Psorphil`s 2nd Anniversary

Released on = August 11, 2007, 12:28 am

Press Release Author = Josef / Psorphil

Industry = Non Profit

Press Release Summary = Mr. Jeff Lok of LEO Pharma Asia will grace the occassion of
Psorphil\'s 2nd year Anniversary that will launch the Psoriasis Livelihood Assistance
Network (PLANET) that aims to provide livelihood for the economically challenged
members of the psoriasis community in the Philippines. The event is scheduled on
August 18, 2007 at the Community Facility, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro
Manila, Philippines.

Press Release Body = LEO Pharma Philippines, in its continuous support of providing
optimism to people with incurable diseases and improving their living conditions,
has decided to be the major sponsor of this year's 2nd anniversary of the Psoriasis
Philippine Online Community (Psor Phil) on August 18 at the Community Facility of
the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.

Carrying this year's theme of \"Turning Hurt Into Halos... Scars Into Stars\",
(inspired by the Robert H. Schuller\'s book of the same title) the event aims to
provide jobs, businesses, and livelihood programs to the economically challenged
psoriasis patients, who are either jobless because of their conditions or relieved
from their jobs because of ignorance and discrimination.

Leading LEO Pharma as the event's keynote speaker is LEO Pharma Asia Regional
Product Manager Jeff Lok, who has been occupying the company's post since 1998. Lok
is expected to encourage patients who are afflicted with psoriasis to live out of
isolation and be active members again of the community when he helps PsorPhil launch
its Psoriasis Livelihood Network (PLANET).

LEO Pharma will join forces with the group in helping beneficiaries set up their own
businesses, provide interest-free capital assistance to approved applicants, send
applicants to more training and seminars, and assist new entrepreneurs start their
businesses through a group of PsorPhil consultant team. They will also be taught
simple bookkeeping ways and proper business sense. A team will also record the
growth of every business ventures and will provide sound management consultancy to
the entrepreneurs free of charge.

\"I would like to invite other companies or even individuals who are willing to make
a difference by helping improve someone else\'s life by participating in this
project. Your help will give some people with psoriasis a chance to a better life
and reclaim their dignities they once lost. We may be able to integrate these people
into the mainstream of active participants in the society,\" PsorPhil
co-founder/moderator Josef de Guzman encouraged.

Psoriasis Philippine Online Community, Inc. is a duly SEC registered
non-stock-non-profit organization. It is a community of people with psoriasis, their
families, friends and doctors from reputable medical institutions. Its mission is to
support people who have psoriasis to become productive, self-reliant, and to
significantly improve their quality of life.

For more information about the events and project mentioned, please call Josef at
09273820525 or any PsorPhil officers: Mylou 09178565855 / 09285056300; Art
09176419203.

Web Site = www.psorphil.org

Contact Details = Josef De Guzman
Psorphil Online Community
Philippines
+639273820525

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