Filipina teen wins Japan singing contest, donates prize to 'Yolanda' survivors

MANILA, Philippines - A fourteen-year-old Filipina high school student who recently won a singing contest in Japan has donated her cash prize to help the victims of Super Typhoon "Yolanda."

The Philippine Embassy in Tokyo said Analyn Almerino from the Tokushima Prefecture was declared as the champion of the Channel 4 Nippon Television’s "Zennihon Kashou-ryoku Senshu-ken, Kashou-ou” (All Japan Singing Talent Competition – Singing King), held last December 9, 2013.

The Embassy said Almerino defeated more than 6,000 preliminary contestants all over Japan and topped remaining eight finalists.

Almerino recently visited the Embassy to personally donate 300,000 Yen or about P129,000 of her winnings for the benefit of the typhoon survivors.

"Talent and generosity is what best describes Analyn Almerino," the Embassy said in an article posted on its website.

It added that Almerino was brought to Japan by her Filipina mother and began singing since her primary school years