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Gwennaelle R. Ruais (born c. 1988) is a fashion model and beauty queen. She competed in the tenth edition of the national Miss Philippines Earth beauty pageant and was crowned Miss Philippines Fire 2010. As a beauty titleholder, she fulfills her duty as one of the spokespersons of the Miss Earth Foundation, an environmental-social-humanitarian outreach arm of Miss Earth beauty pageant.
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Miss Philippines Earth 2010
Ruais joined and represented the Filipino community in France in the national Miss Philippines Earth 2010, the largest and most widely participated beauty pageant in the Philippines with 49 official candidates participated in 2010 held at The Aquatica, Manila Ocean Park in the beauty contest that promotes environmental awareness which was held on April 25, 2010.
In the final competition of the Miss Philippines Earth 2010, she was announced as one of the 10 semi-finalists who moved forward to compete for the five titles. She achieved one of the five highest scores in the swimsuit and evening gown competitions for her stage chops and question and answer portion of the pageant. At the conclusion of the pageant, she won and was crowned Miss Philippines Fire 2010. She was crowned by the outgoing Miss Philippines Water 2009 titleholder, Patricia Tumulak on April 24, 2010 in Manila, Philippines.
Ruais is 24 years old at the time of crowning and stands 6 feet and 3 inches in height with body measures of 35-24-36. She is a graduate of a Fashion Marketing course at a school in Paris, France. She bested 48 other candidates in the beauty contest which is focused on the protection and preservation of Mother Earth.
Miss Earth Foundation activities
On May 4, 2010, Ruais and the other Miss Philippines Earth titleholders joined forces with the EcoWaste Coalition in a public event held in Quezon City, Philippines to promote simple yet creative 3Rs (repurpose, reuse, recycle) solutions to avert a potential garbage crisis after the Philippine national election on May 10, 2010. The campaign is to repurpose, reuse, and recycle the huge volume of campaign discards than to burn or bury them and in turn pollute the communities.