New and Improved

New and ImprovedBy Gabriela Moncada, Marketing and Communications Intern When Awamaki began, our focus was on economic empowerment. Income in the hands of women, we believed, was the best way to enable them to lift their communities to prosperity. We still believe that, however; in the past few years, our view of empowerment has changed. We have moved increasingly towards a more holistic view of empowerment, with confidence and leadership trainings to complement and strengthen the effects of the economic benefits our artisans receive. Doni Uyeno, our first Monitoring and Evaluations volunteer of 2018, worked alongside our local staff to...