FRANCIS LEO MARCOS AND THE "MAYAMAN CHALLENGE"

The Challenge

The epidemic COVID-19 virus led Francis Leo Marcos to come in the open challenging all politicians out there to fulfill their promises during the election campaign, and including the rich. His challenge was vocal, brave, demanding, and something sarcastic. His action draws positive and negative reactions from those who heard his challenge irritating the subdivision homeowners.

He said he had been doing humanitarian activities since young but this is the only time he came to challenge others to help the hungry and also the government. He drove around inside the subdivision in his white Mustang, carrying his challenge and pointing to his neighbors, but without dropping a single name. He said I know there is a hero inherent to every man and woman. Let’s awaken them. If this is the only way to awaken the hero inherent to every man in our land, every good man in our land, and every rich man in my subdivision, so be it

Gone Viral

I was one of those who watched his first live stream through FB. He and two of his boys heading to a department store buying about 10 sacks of rice and sort of food packs. This is to feed people and families along the main streets of Manila, including front liners they happen to pass by. The Activity continued down to some barangays. Up to this day, he was able to reach out about 200 tons of rice according to one of his latest reports. He didn't accept donations. He advised donors to be the ones to reach for those who are in need, and it would be great for him. 

His live videos started trending, reaching viewers far more than what the top vloggers and other organizations have attained in their streaming. Filipinos are compassionate, especially when you do something good and extraordinary to others. Your personality, whether good or bad, you're a hero. There are continuously growing number of respondents accepting and duplicating what he is doing. Giving food to the needy, big or small. Today, his YouTube channel already reached more than 640,000 subscribers while his FB page was taken down.

Who is Francis Leo Marcos

He confessed that Francis Leo Marcos and Norman Antonio Mangusin are one.  He was named Francis Leo Marcos, because, according to him, his mother was greatly inspired by the great deeds of the late President Ferdinand Marcos and the first lady. His mother is an Igorota-Ilocana from Baguio city. he is married to Mayu Murakami in July 2019, who was crowned Miss Universe Japan in 2013. There is no information regarding his father. 

Francis Leo Marcos is a businessman, a Philanthropist, and CEO & Chairman of Marcos Group of Companies since 2005. He is also the chairman of the Volunteer Against Poverty Foundation, Inc., and also the chairman of the Oriental Perlinian Foundation. He studied high school at the National High School of Massachusetts Bay Belmont and graduated a degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, in 1997. He presently resides at Green Meadows, Pasig City, Manila.

Francis Leo Marcos has long been doing outreach programs and it's only known to the communities where the activities were conducted. There were charges filed against him in the past in relation to his philanthropic activities but all were acquitted. Lately, he received a summon for alleged alarming scandal and unjust vexation from the homeowners of the subdivision in which it has yet to be addressed.

He once appeared in a national newspaper(The Philippine Star, Oct. 7, 2013) donating 5 tons of rice to 2,000 families in Pasay city in his efforts to fight starvation in the country being the Chairman of Francis Leo Marcos Foundation. Together with him was his aunt Fortuna Marcos Barba the sister of former President Ferdinand Marcos and siblings Chito, Dino, and Fidel Barba Marcos.