Unless… they’re my friends Bru and Aina, who decided in lieu of wedding gifts (I have no idea how they’ll cope without a stainless steel reduction pan), they passed out envelopes to their guests and asked them to donate to the Virlanie Foundation.
Virlanie cares for abandoned, physically and sexually abused, exploited, and neglected kids by taking them in to group homes around the Philippines and providing love and education in a family-style atmosphere.
Bru and Aina’s wedding guests came through big-time, and yesterday we brought a fat check over to one of Virlanie’s homes here in Makati, along with lunch and ice cream and new toys. The home was doing its best but was pretty run down and lacked ventilation and these kids have been dealt the worst hand but were super sweet and just wanted some attention, which we provided all afternoon.
So feel free to enter into an institution that goes phenomenally wrong half the time, just so long as you ensure some real good can come out of it. You know you wanna.
