A grand cake display to welcome guests. PHOTOS BY JOHN ORVEN VERDOTE
“We’ve recently been involved in the cleanup of Manila Bay, started a relationship with the Pasay Community Center where we’re looking to donate food to them. More importantly, we’ve embarked on a program called ‘Soap for Hope,’ where all those wonderful bars of soap you’ve had in the hotel, they get put aside and repurposed. The Pasay Community Center repress it, and take it back to the communities or sell it.