Awamaki Journal: A Blog About Textiles, Travel and the Sacred Valley – tagged "Sustainable Community Development"

Jun 27, 2018

Posed to Empower

Posed to EmpowerBy Elizabeth Salley, Marketing and Communications Intern “Okay, it´s time for affirmations! Find a partner!” Ginette Collin announces. The room becomes a flurry of movement as the artisans pair up and giggle. At first, some of the women are quiet, but within the next few minutes, the meeting is full of arms waving in the air and voices calling out phrases like, ¨I have energy!” or “I am incredible!” in Spanish and Quechua. This exercise is one of the many in a new workshop series for financial literacy and life skill training, developed in partnership with PurpleLily, a...

Jun 01, 2015

Keeping it Kind: The Awamaki Rotation System

by Gillian Fitzpatrick, Monitoring & Evaluation Intern Three years ago, Awamaki discovered distinct differences in income amongst women in the Patacancha cooperative. Quick to fix the issue, we introduced our rotation system. From the collected income data in 2013 and 2014 of the Patacancha cooperative members, it was shown that...

May 19, 2015

Knitter trainings in Rumira

by Gillian Fitzpatrick, M&E Intern Awamaki’s most advanced knitting cooperative, the Virgen del Carmen knitting cooperative in Rumira, has been attending business training workshops. The workshops are designed to give the women the skills they need to graduate from our impact model program into their own autonomous organization. They will...

May 19, 2015

Introducing the Impact Model

by Laura Brokaw, Volunteer and Tourist Coordinator A few years ago, Awamaki faced a tough question. Since our founding, we had focused on increasing the women’s income. To do this, we taught the women to make beautiful things, and sold those things to retail stores in the U.S. This made...

May 19, 2015

Intern from Patacancha Leads Tour

By Vivian Smith, Sustainable Tourism Coordinator This year, Awamaki was excited to host Felicitas, a young woman from the weaving village of Patacancha, as our first Peruvian intern. In April, she led her first Awamaki tour to the village. This was the first Quechua Community Visit–Awamaki’s most popular tour–led...

Jul 28, 2012

Community Development in Rural Peru

Best friends, Maddy and Christine, decided that they wanted to make a difference this summer. “I have a heart for kids,” Maddy says. The pair contacted Roadmonkey to help organize their trip and set the ball in motion. Awamaki interviewed Maddy and Christine to get a better feel for what...

Apr 05, 2012

Lady in the Sacred Valley

After two lovely days in Machu Picchu, it was time to head back to Cuzco. But when my train arrived at Ollantaytambo station in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, I still had one thing left to do: meet one of the town’s most important organizations.Or rather,...

Jul 28, 2011

Fluoride Campaign

For the past 3 weeks, Carolyn and Kenneth have been implementing a fluoridation campaign on behalf of the Chillca clinic. Visiting students at three rural elementary schools – Kamicancha, Chillca, and Piscacucho – they have successfully completed a campaign that will protect the students’ teeth for 8-10 months. Going to...

Experience the Sacred Valley

Experience the Sacred Valley

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Posed to Empower

Keeping it Kind: The Awamaki Rotation System

Knitter trainings in Rumira

Introducing the Impact Model

Intern from Patacancha Leads Tour

Community Development in Rural Peru

Lady in the Sacred Valley

Fluoride Campaign