Love our Peruvian art and fair trade products? These are some of the profiles of the artisans creating our alpaca clothing, arpillera tapestries and handmade clothing and toys.. For more information, please click on the name of the group or artist.
Rasuwillka (Ayacucho) Click here to visit our fair trade store
This group is composed of craftsmen who are part of the Familiar Association of the Prisoners and the Disappeared; created during the year where terrorists killed thousands of people in Peru. Ayacucho is one of the poorest areas in Peru.
The group has an average of 20 family workshops specializing in weaving fabrics, cutting retables and Huamanga stones.
This association has implemented health insurance for their members; providing an emergency kit that is supplied free of charge and covering most of the expenses at hospitals when needed.
Casa Betania (Lima) Click here to visit our fair trade store
Started as a way to assist women with lack of emotional and financial support in some of the most unprivileged areas in Lima. 
On December 4, 1990 they started making jute cartridge pouches, then they learned to embroider and sew, some women brought their tools, also fixed the schedule from 2 to 7 p.m. and wages. The group that started with 7 women, grew into a group of 23 women selling their products to churches. Cáritas of France donated 2 sewing machines and libraries as well a provided some financial support.
Now they not only help provide for their families but also have developed several activities for their children, teaching them how to recycle items and create new products as well as create imitation jewelry.
Kuyanakuy (Lima)
This group is composed for 45 women producing burlaps and articles with applications of burlap (Arpilleras).
Kuyanakuy means “Let’s love each other” in quechua. These women come from areas struck by violence during the Eighties, mainly of the rural zones of Ayacucho that migrated to Lima. 
Juliana Quijano says: "They was the years of violence, more or less into 1988 arrived the first ladies, they were escaping from Ayacucho, of Huancavelica, Yauyos, Cora Cora, Vischongo, Acocro, Cangallo. At one time in my house there were 12 families, others were placed in family house. Little by little the numbers increased by 15, 20, 35.
The majority of them could not speak Spanish and were illiterate so it was hard to communicate and help them. Slowly, we all started making crafts and burlap that were bought by very few people knowing about them. Caritas and PRONAA (Gov. of Peru) supported them with food in their communal dining rooms, some ONGs provided language and writing classes.
In 1995, CIAP helped them improve quality and the design of their products. Click here to visit our fair trade store
AAasiqa (Puno) 
This group is composed for 35 artists that work permanently and 15 other craftsmen that are on-call based on the amount of orders. They produce alpaca clothing and accessories (sweaters, gloves, scarves, hats, etc)
Creaciones del Ande (Puno)
Group of 16 women working in a depressed are of the Andes. They produce Alpaca clothesl and accessories.
Ichimay Wari (South of Lima)
This diverse group is formed by 15 partners, most of them escaped from Ayacucho during the eighties. Each of the partners has a family workshop specializing in Peruvian art, ceramics, Peruvian textiles, sculptures, etc. 
The partners carry different activities of mutual assistance.
Working exclusively for us, Gilda Moron Otero.-
Gilda has several professions; she is an Elementary Teacher, a clothing and jewelry designer and has also worked successfully as a therapist through dance with children, adults and individuals with special needs.
For years, she has been the “Marinera” lead teacher with a City Hall in Lima, she has exhibit her jewelry and her unique creations of Marinera dresses have traveled around the world.
Now, she has joined us and is creating special and tailored pieces of Marinera dress and jewelry. If you are interested, please send us your idea and measurements, we will reply with a quote.
Gilda lives in Peru with 2 of her 3 children, Jose and Juan Diego.
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