Miss International '17 Trained in the Philippines Free of Charge!
http://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2017/11/26/1762426/other-queen-maker
Now it can be told, Kevin Liliana of Indonesia who went on to win Miss International 2017 was trained by Kagandahang Flores; the same beauty camp that trained the almost 50 Filipina international beauty titlists.
But what came to me as a shocker is the realization that they actually trained even foreign candidates like Liliana freee of charge!
In an interview by entertainment columnist Ricky Lo, Rodgil revealed that “In the case of Kevin Liliana, ‘yung pageant handler at organization nila nagkataon kaibigan ni Gio. Hindi naman kami tumatanggi as far as our advocacy is concerned. WE DON'T CHARGE FOR THEIR TRAINING. We have also trained girls from Japan, Cambodia, Angola, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, etc., and these girls have become our extended family.”
As a Filipino, I am amazed and proud of the kindness that KF camp is capable of BUT then I am also weary of the fact that this - training foreign candidates/girls - can bite us in the ass one day. Not only we are sharing our "winning recipe" we are not even charging in the doing?!