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Mayan Hands, a fair trade enterprise founded in 1989, works with ten different groups (about
225 women) who live in small villages in the highlands of Guatemala and market their products through fair trade. These
weavers now count on a modest but regular income that enables them to raise themselves from relentless poverty. They
eat better, send their children to school, improve their situation and keep hope alive.
The women in Nahuala make stoles for pastors to wear with their robes.
Mayan Hands strives to improve the lives of talented weavers using backstrap looms. The
backstrap loom is an intricate and painstaking art form, whereby even experts weave only one inch of brocaded cloth per hour
of work.
More about Mayan Hands
Mayan Hands Projects
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