THE oldies of St. Vincent’s Home for the Aged started their week a little early and more energetic with the members of Anytime Fitness Gym, leading a Zumba class as part of their Christmas outreach.
The grannies of the elderly facilities were more than perked up to stretch their muscles and groove with an upbeat set of songs.
Anytime Fitness campaigned to solicit donations in kind like clothes, food items, Christmas favors and other significant needs for the elderlies of the facility to enjoy.
A huge box was placed inside the 24-hour gym for its members to fill in time for its first ever outreach after its opening few months ago at SM City Bacolod.
St. Vincent’s Home Inc. is a licensed Social Welfare Institution established on September 19, 1960 to provide temporary shelter for neglected and abandoned elderlies called St. Vincent’s Home for the Aged located in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod.
St. Vincent’s Home operates under the management of the Association of the Ladies of Charity (Damas de la Caridad). Since June 1973, St. Vincent’s Home’s services have been administered by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
St. Vincent’s Home was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 1966. It was fully accredited as a home for Older Persons on April 14, 1975 by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the first accredited home for older persons in Bacolod City. It is also an accredited member-agency of the City and Provincial Development Councils of Bacolod.
The outreach program is one of the many outreaches of the gym as its way of giving back to the community. It can be recalled that “Anytime Fitness, the world’s largest and fastest-growing co-ed fitness club chain, has been ranked No. 1 on Entrepreneur magazine’s annual Top Global Franchise list. Averaging more than 300 new gyms a year for each of the past nine years, Anytime Fitness recently expanded to China, Belgium, Sweden and Italy. New gyms will also open soon in Colombia, Panama, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.”
It's Bacolod Manager, Joy Tallafer-Jose extends its gratitude to its members who contributed so much in its pioneer programs especially this season of giving.
At present, there are nearly 3,300 Anytime Fitness gyms open worldwide.