Italian Philanthropist Is Angel To Many Filipinos

Italian Philanthropist Armando de Rossi inspects a government school in Jolo island in the southern Philippines.

De Rossi, who heads the 3P Foundation, is active in humanitarian mission around the Philippines and in many occassions, headed huge groups in Jolo's war-torn areas to deliver relief goods, from diesel generators to hospital equipment.

He has built dozens of mosques and clinics and brought smiles to thousands of people in the country. De Rossi collected donations and relief goods from his friends from around the world, but often times, spent his own money, to help the poor Filipinos.

De Rossi has been conferred the title of Sultan by the Royal Houses of the Sultanate of Lanao and holds many other titles from different ethnic tribes in the Philippines because of his great concern for the poor.

He uses no jewelries, neither signature clothes and expensive shoes, and goes around the Philippines to see the plight of the indigents.

And it takes one Italian man to open the eyes of many Filipinos to help their fellowmen.