By Jeannie Balanda | Executive Director
In Guatemala, girls learn to weave from their mothers. It is part of indigenous culture to weave every day and to pass the craft down from one generation to the next. MayaWorks artisan partners begin to teach their daughters how to weave when they are six or seven years old.
The daughters of our artisan partners weave before or after school once their homework is completed. Eventhough these girls will not make a living from weaving like their mothers, it is important that they learn to weave to keep this art form alive in Guatemala.
Vicenta is a long time artisan partner of Mayaworks. She has taught all of her daughters how to weave and is now teaching her grandaughters the art form. But Vicenta is adamant her grandaughters stay in school. Every year she applies for a MayaWorks scholarshp so that her granddaughters can attend the village school. Vicenta is proud that she can teach her granddaughters to weave and contribute to their formal education.
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