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He and his staff responded by finding a local tailor and a second-hand sewing machine, and establishing a workshop right inside the rehab facility — using spandex instead of the usual material.

“I made the costumes in the middle of our dining room on my mother’s Singer sewing machine,” he says.

The buildings have been hollowed out to make way for sewing machines, rolls of fabric and bags brimming with cloth scraps.

"When I got married, four sewing machines arrived with my husband," Rosita told the AFP news agency in a 2016 interview.

She searched for work, but said nobody wanted to hire an older woman who had limited use of her left shoulder after so many years of sitting hunched over sewing machines.