Capacity-building for rural women artisans in Peru

Awamaki's knitting cooperative is still hard at work acquiring new financial skills through our financial workshops. By learning these skills, the women of the cooperative can continue to take management of the group into their own hands, leading to sustained leadership and ownership of the cooperative. Awamaki strives to...

Since our last project report, Awamaki has been busy working with our artisan groups to improve their effectiveness as global pioneers, and leaders in their households and communities. Awamaki is currently administering a pilot program of financial leadership workshops to the women of our knitting cooperative. The women of...

Awamaki works with nearly 60 indigenous weavers. For several years we have regularly run natural dyes workshops with them so they can retain traditional techniques and increase the market value of their weavings.  A local weaving expert leads the workshops, which are funded in part by donations to this GlobalGiving...

It has been a busy and productive three months at Awamaki, and we are wrapping up a year of great progress with our women's cooperatives in continued skills-building Your support of capacity-building at Awamaki funds three types of trainings: technical trainings that enable our women to improve the quality and...

Thanks to you, our amazing donors, we have been able to raise nearly $2000 for capacity-building workshops for our women artisan cooperatives in rural Peru. We are hard at work putting these donations to good use! Our knitters have been busily engaged in skills workshops in reading patterns, making sweaters and quality...