The INSIDER Summary:' Miss Bulgaria competed in the Miss Universe pageant on Sunday nightin Manila, Philippines.' Before leaving the country, she donated one of her blue evening gowns to a local girl in need of a prom dress.' Issay Gallano, a single mom, won the dress and gave it to her 15-year-old daughter as a surprise.Miss Bulgaria didn't end up with a crown after Sunday night's Miss Universe contest. Instead, she's making headlines for a heartwarming donation to a girl in need.Violina Ancheva, who won the title of Miss Bulgaria in 2016, decided to donate herblue evening gown toa local teenagerin the Philippines, where the pageant was held, CNN Philippines reported."Dear friends, I would like to give as a present my Miss Universe Gown [...] to one of you that really want it and need it," Ancheva wrote in a post on her official Facebook page. "I want to give the dress to a girl in need that can't buy a dress for her prom the next month.Please write to me a personal message for details."(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));PostbyViolina Ancheva.Thousands of hopefuls responded to the message, but Ancheva finally picked one: A note from Issay Gallano, a single mother of a 15-year-old daughter named Zyra Nicole Cifra. Gallano, as the sole breadwinner for the family, could not afford a dress forCifra, whose prom is just weeks away.So Ancheva arranged a meeting to hand off the dress, fromAmerican designer Sherri Hill, to Gallano. News photographers were there to capture the emotional encounter.EXCLUSIVE: #MissBulgaria #ViolinaAncheva and Issay Gallano hug after meeting at the @ConradManila | Photo courtesy of Marc Sobhrajani pic.twitter.com/J7sNuRZadZ' CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) January 31, 2017"I know how she feels and I'm happy I gave it to you, and your daughter will have the best dress of the evening," Ancheva told Gallano.15-year-old Cifra wasn't able to attend the meeting because she was in school ' but her mother filmed her reaction when she was presented with the dress later as a surprise. This video showsthe moment Cifrasaw the dress:WATCH: Issay Gallano's daughter sees #MissBulgaria #ViolinaAncheva's @SherriHill gown for the first time | @isabellamay pic.twitter.com/i60bIX90Ty' CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) January 31, 2017Finally, she got to try it on:EXCLUSIVE: The 15-year-old daughter of a single mom who got Miss Bulgaria's @SherriHill gown. #MissUniverse | @isabellamay pic.twitter.com/UabrICGyXx' CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) January 31, 2017The gesture won the hearts of many Miss Universe fans who flockedto Ancheva's Facebook page and left supportive comments."The essence of being a Miss Universe," one commenterwrote. "Even though you didn't [win]the pageant[...] you won the hearts of many Filipinos."Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Beauty vloggers are finding thousands of dollars worth of makeup in dumpsters
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