Capacity-building for rural women artisans in Peru

Dear donors, 

This year at Awamaki, we are thankful for you. You provide us the funds to give women the skills and opportunity to earn an income and lift their families out of poverty. You believe in us and you invest in our women and their potential. Thanks to you, this year we have:

• Provided high-quality skills training enabling our knitters to produce knitwear that is internationally desirable
• Helped our knitters sell their knitwear to global retailers (from Zappos to ABC Carpet to mom-and-pop fair trade stores all over the U.S.) 
• Run out of knitwear and thus added a new knitting cooperative of 20 women!
• Provided intensive leadership training and local and international networking opportunities to weavers who are among our most remote, impoverished Quechua-speaking women so they can take leadership in their cooperative business and in their communities
• Sent teams of staff and volunteers into the field to conduct surveys, interviews and focus groups with all the women with whom we work so that we can better understand their household economies, serve their needs, and help them meet their financial goals.

We couldn't do this without you, and that's why we made this thank you video. 

Thank you, and have a wonderful holiday season!

Links:

• Thank You Video