DemeTech Donates Masks to Lotus House

Photography by Daniel Rodriguez on April 22nd, 2021 in Lifestyle

Karla & Luis Arguello Jr.

Miami, FL – April 22, 2021 – On April 22nd, DemeTech, the only high-quality NIOSH-approved N95 mask & PPE manufacturer in the state of Florida delivered thousands of masks to Lotus House upon learning the organization was in need of masks for women, youth and children. Miami-based DemeTech execs Luis Arguello Jr., Chris Arguello and Karla Arguello were on hand to make the donation personally as part of their ongoing efforts to remind the US to mask up as vaccines roll out. DemeTech ramped up production of American-made surgical and N95 masks when the Covid-19 crisis first struck. Called DemeMASK, the collection utilizes only the highest grade American-made raw materials. In fact, all aspects of the operation are USA-based, from the fabric to the packaging and extending to the machinery used in the factory. Since pivoting the company’s capability to create masks, DemeTech has added hundreds of new jobs in Miami and obtained two additional production facilities to expand growth to address PPE production needs.

“As a US medical device manufacturer, but more importantly as Americans, we felt compelled to assist in any way we could during this devastating global pandemic,” says Luis Arguello Jr., Vice President of DemeTECH. “We are proud to be producing American-made surgical masks and N95 respirators, and the only facility to do so in Florida. We have greatly expanded our production and staffing to meet the demands that Covid-19 has placed on our heroes in the medical community.”

From the very humblest of beginnings more than a decade ago, and thanks to the generosity of so many, Lotus House has blossomed into its new home at Lotus Village, a state of the art, trauma-informed, comprehensive homeless services facility with expanded capacity to shelter 500+ women, youth and children nightly. Its life-changing mixed-use “village” offers women, youth and children counseling and support services, a working classroom kitchen nourishing bodies and minds, an in-take sanctuary, healing hands salon, computer library for adult education and after school programming, an art and activities lab with alternative pathways for healing, yoga and meditation room, family community rooms, children’s play areas and gardens throughout to soothe, empower, and uplift. In addition to realizing our long awaited dream for facilities tailored to the needs of the women, youth, and children we shelter, Lotus Village promises to be a center for innovation, best practices, research, shared learning, and development of public and social policies to advance the status of women, youth, and children to prevent and end homelessness.