This extra-time brought about by the Enhanced Community Quarantine has brought yours truly to scanning over beauty pageants whose contests are currently ongoing – Miss Universe Philippines, Bb. Pilipinas and Miss Philippines Earth. This article though goes to Miss Universe Philippines 2020 candidate Rabiya Mateo who hopes to bring forth another successful finish for Iloilo City. Rabiya wasn’t keen on posting the help she has given towards the City of Love but she has somehow loosened up and has opened the things she has done to inspire people through the use of social media.
Rabiya was seen preparing meals for frontliners of the Iloilo Doctors Hospital. She has also shared her time with BULIG of the Jazmin Foundation to raise donations for the PPEs of frontliners and to be able to help pedicab drivers that lost their source of income during ECQ. Once a week, she also volunteers in making PPEs at the Iloilo Science and Technology University with assistance from the Iloilo Chapter of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
With regards to her preparations for Miss Universe Philippines, she has kept herself fit through exercise and at the same time, she has worked on looks which she has done with an up and coming Ilonggo make up artist, Gio Forbes:
At present, Rabiya has been gracing one pageant page after another gamely answering questions that are thrown after her where she has proven her eloquence and poise towards anything that pageant press may ask.
The Miss Universe Philippines Finals Night has been moved to October 25, 2020
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