MACABEBE, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Macabebe Bureau) – Philippine Senators are known to benefit from pork barrel projects intended for their constituencies, but Senator Risa Hontiveros chose to go with just a little assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Hontiveros posed as an indigent private citizen and lined up together with those affected by the recent typhoon Egay to get a box of relief goods.

Those in line who recognized her were appalled that she’d even think of depriving other more deserving indigents for some grocery items which she could very well afford.

We caught up with Hontiveros as she was loading the relief box into her Mercedes Benz and asked her why she did what she did.

“Oh, it’s all a misunderstanding,” she said. “This relief box is for my kasambahay (house help), not for me!”

Even, then does this mean she cannot even provide basic necessities for her house help?