With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many livelihoods, social enterprises have also struggled to raise funds for their partner communities.
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As such, Dabawenyo Creative Director Wilson Niñofranco Limon created a line of face masks to help ethnolinguistic communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. With his brand, NIñOFRANCO, these face masks feature different indigenous weaving patterns from the enterprise’s partner communities.
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20% of the proceeds from this collection will go to their partner ethnolinguistic communities, Wimler Foundation, Lamlifew Association and Lake Sebu Indigenous Women Weavers Association, Inc. (LASIWWAI).
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The brand wrote, “We may not know what lies ahead of us, but somehow, we want to give them a #MaskofHope.”
NIñOFRANCO also notes that the digital prints of the #MaskofHope have already been approved and recognized by the appropriate ethnolinguistic authorities.
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To pre-order these masks, you can click here or visit NIñOFRANCO’s Facebook page for more information.
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