Renowned local designer Marlon Tuazon has donated facemasks to the elderly housed at Bale Pusu, true to his advocacy of assisting the Angeles City Government’s programs, led by Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr.

Tuazon, two gold medalist winner of TernoCon — a terno-making convention and competition for regional designers, sponsored by Bench and the Cultural Center of the Philippines — made the donation during the ribbon cutting ceremony of his shop MCT Couture, attended by Lazatin’s Chief Adviser IC Calaguas and Executive Assistant IV Reina Manuel yesterday, Sept. 18.

Marlon has been actively participating in the city government’s programs particularly arts and design. He shared in one of his interviews that “creativity is our survival tool in offering solutions to adversities that shake us to the core: as individuals, as a community, and as a nation. Pandemic or no pandemic.”

Bale Pusu is the first ever city-operated home for the homeless/abandoned elderly which opened last Sept. 15 and can house 8 to 12 homeless female senior citizens.

Meanwhile, the official duster worn by the elderly inside Bale Pusu were designed by homegrown designer also — Rosette Ramos-Biag, with the help of 10 home-based mananahi hired under the Angeleño First Facemask livelihood program.

Tuazon and Ramos-Biag are two of the 17 local designers who assisted the homebased mananahi hired in the facemask livelohood project of the city government. (Angeles City Information Office)