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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1715055863597Screen Shot 2024-05-07 at 12.24.03 PM.png" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Former Vice President Leni Robredo launches Angat Buhay in the US. Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Former Vice President Leni Robredo launches Angat Buhay in the US. <em>Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News</em></span></span></span></div><p>WEST COVINA, California — This is life after politics for former Vice President Leni Robredo.</p><p>Robredo recently paid a visit to Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada to meet with her supporters to promote her Angat Buhay Foundation, the advocacy that she began after her stint as Vice President.</p><p>The foundation focuses on poverty alleviation through education, climate, nutrition, and the arts.</p><p>&quot;This is definitely the closest to my heart because this is what I’ve been focusing on since the end of my term as my Vice President,&quot; she said.</p><p>A US version of Angat Buhay was launched last year, gaining non-profit status in the US. Through this, Angat Buhay looks to spread awareness and hold fundraising events on a global scale.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/01/23/20k-families-helped-by-angat-buhay-a-year-into-founding">READ: 20k families helped by Angat Buhay a year into founding</a></div><p>&quot;This is the first fundraising event we’re having in the US so we hope to kickstart the fundraising in other filipino communities all over the US and Canada,&quot; said Camille Genuino, one of the Board of Trustees of Angat Buhay.</p><p>This first fundraiser took place at West Covina’s Tito’s of Manila, the same site where Filipinos held a massive &quot;Pink Caravan&quot; in 2022 to support Robredo&#x27;s presidential campaign.</p><p>This time around, supporters came in to raise over $35,000 as Robredo spoke about Angat Buhay, its accomplishments, and goals.</p><p>&quot;The idea of having more US presence is really to encourage more kababayans that are here to be really more involved in our programs in the Philippines because a lot of people will always ask us how to help. Most of our kababayans want to help but they don’t know how and we’re looking at Angat Buhay as a platform for that,&quot; Robredo said.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/01/22/robredo-launches-angat-buhay-ngo">READ: &#x27;A new chapter&#x27;: Robredo launches Angat Buhay NGO</a></div><p>Roger Santos of Angat Buhay USA explains the goal of the organization.</p><p>&quot;Our main objective is to partner with corporate entities, international companies that have businesses in the Philippines so to build more partnerships. It’s very fulfilling and just getting that numbers just exasperated the need to help our kababayans,&quot; he said.</p><p>Robredo admits that life after politics has been much busier with her advocacies, but she said it wasn’t a difficult transition since this was her life before entering politics.</p><p>&quot;I’ve just been in government for 9 years—3 years as a member of congress and 6 years as Vice President but I’ve been a development worker much longer than that... You don’t need a government position for you to be able to help. So it’s the same message we want to spread across many Filipino communities as,&quot; she said.</p><p>Robredo launched Angat Buhay in 2022, following her loss in the 2022 presidential elections.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div style="text-align:center"><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ELWfRx8JKg0?&amp;t=5s&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span>Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(60, 151, 255)" target="_blank">iWantTFC.com</a>. Watch hundreds of Pinoy shows, movies, live sports and news.</div>

<p>Robredo admits that life after politics has been much busier with her advocacies.</p>

Robredo admits that life after politics has been much busier with her advocacies.

Ex-VP Robredo holds 'Angat Buhay' fundraising in US, raises $35,000 in California

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Ex-VP Robredo holds 'Angat Buhay' fundraising in US, raises $35,000 in California

Steve Angeles,

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Published May 07, 2024 12:50 PM PHT

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Updated Jun 12, 2024 05:20 PM PHT

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