Malaysian heiress raised by Filipino nannies now pays it forward


"I'M in the best place now, and where I should be," says Shirley Maya Tan (pix).

Her eyes seem to light up whenever she mentions the Enchanted Farm in Angat, Bulacan, a Gawad Kalinga community that she and other "social investors" helped grow into a model township, complete with a livelihood enterprise and alternative university for budding social entrepreneurs.

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