Reigning Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach took to Instagram to address her bashers who criticize her for supposedly forgetting about her advocacy to raise HIV/AIDS awareness.
Wurtzbach said just because she was not posting photos of her activities on social media did not mean that she was not doing anything.
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“Just to get some things straight. I haven’t forgotten about my advocacy, ok? I’m so tired of people complaining that I haven’t found “the cure” for HIV when clearly I said I would raise awareness. I’m not magically gonna come up with a potion that cures everything,” Wurtzbach wrote in the caption of her photo wearing a bikini, which she said she posted to get readers’ attention.
“I just really did not like posting anything online. Why? Cos I didn’t feel like I needed to. Am I gonna carry my phone around with me and take every selfie, every photo I see to ease your worries? No. I don’t work like that. I put my phone down and I work. And did it work? Yes. Sometimes the plans you carry have a bigger chance of reaching a larger magnitude if you’re just focused on the work,” she added.
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Noting that she “can’t work a miracle” and device a cure for HIV, Wurtzbach said the fact the critics were talking about how supposedly little charity work she was doing was “awareness in itself.”
“I’m good with letting people know about what I’m doing or what I plan to do. I’m a woman of my word. What I say in public is a promise. Why worry about updating everyone on social media and in the process losing the experience because you were on your phone the whole time staging photos,” she said.
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“I still consider myself as a student and I’m learning more and more everyday. So before you go saying that I haven’t done anything, the mere fact that you’re talking about how little I am doing charity work for HIV/AIDS, isn’t that awareness in itself? You’re thinking about it, right? Talking about it, correct? Bashing me in the process BUT still getting the message out there. I don’t have to spell it out,” she added. CBB
