Ruffa Gutierrez Biography

Fast Facts

• Learned to value money from her experience of helping her parents sell pots and pans, setting the table, etc
• , for which she earned US$5
• Performed in That's Entertainment hosted by German Moreno in the early 1990s
• Won the Binibining Pilipinas-World title in 1993, at the age of 18; participated in the Miss World pageant thereafter and grabbed the third place in the competition
• Took up an International Political Economy (Business and Management) summer course at King's College London in 2013
• Partnered with fashion designer Rajo Laurel for his Love Collection, a collection of party dresses for children
• Established Roof-a-Child Foundation in 1998, an organization that shelters children who are abused or abandoned by their parents and children with disabilities