Robredos pay homage to Mindanao weavers at SONA

Vice President Leni Robredo and her daughters (from left) Tricia, Jillian and Aika at the Batasang Pambansa for the President's State of the Nation Address on July 22, 2019. Photo: Tricia Robredo's Twitter account

Vice President Leni Robredo and her daughters Tricia, Jillian and Aika paid homage to Mindanaoan weavers in their attire for President Rodrigo Duterte’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 22.

The four ladies all wore Filipiniana outfits created by weavers from Basilan and war-torn Marawi City, beneficiaries of the Office of the Vice President’s Angat Buhay program. 

Angat Buhay is an anti-poverty project of Robredo's office which combines the resources of her office and the private sector to serve communities in need.

Robredo has always attended Duterte’s SONA but shuns interviews after the event.

It has been over two years since terrorists from the Maute group held Marawi City under siege for five months, taking hostages, destroying communities, killing non-Muslims and battling government troops with relentless sniper fire.

The Marawi siege, which ended in October 2017, resulted in over a hundred people dead and at least P53 billion worth of damage. — BM, GMA News