Capacity-building for rural women artisans in Peru

This year, the Puente Inca knitting cooperative has been working to advance as an independent business. Your odnations have funded trainings in quality control, and the beginning of construction on their new crafts center. They know they have a long road ahead of them to build the kind of excellent quality and business skills necessary to graduate from our training model. With that in mind, we sat down with them to ask them their New Year's resolutions. 

Rosa told us that her resolution for the new year is for her cooperative to become comfortable taking risks. She wants them to learn new knitting techniques, finish their artisan center, and work together as a group to take on an independent client.

Maritza hopes that in 2017 the Puente Inca group will be able to work independently with a business in the Cusco region. She wants the group to finish their artisan center, especially the second floor, so that they can host visitors to their cooperative and have a permanent place to meet and work. Personally, Maritza aims to save enough to finish building her house, which still needs to be painted and furnished since she lost everything in a flood in 2010. By making these improvements, she will be able to host tourists and use her extra income to buy more animals for farming.

Rosa, Maritza and their fellow knitters are motivated and excited to grow their business skills, but they can't do so without your investment. Please consider helping them achieve their goals in 2017.