MayaWorks Spring Newsletter

Mother’s Day is this weekend and I am lucky enough to be flying to visit my own mom. We will take a walk, have brunch, linger over coffee. We will reminisce about my growing up and I will surely solicit advice on the raising of my own three kids. It will be lovely and we will [...]

Tricia Kelly's Spanish students host a MayaWorks sale to hone their budding language skills while learning about the impact of fair trade on the developing world.

Do you remember your middle school or high school Spanish classes? If they were anything like mine, you were reading old textbook stories about Pablo and his family in [...]

MayaWorks provides daughters of artisans scholarships to help defray the cost of school attendance. Although education in Guatemala is free, parents must pay a registration fee, purchase school supplies and cover transportation expenses to get their children back and forth to school. In many of the communities where MayaWorks operates, children cannot attend school beyond the [...]

The third principle of fair trade is to build capacity for producers or artisan partners.  By building capacity, we seek to foster independence within producer groups so that they can expand their skills and gain access to markets.  This is achieved through long-term relationships that are characterized by trust and mutual respect and a commitment to [...]

At MayaWorks we like to think our products are not only beautiful but functional too.  Take for instance our Guatemalan Recycled Water Bottle Holder.  It's made from recycled huipiles which are the hand woven blouses worn by indigenous women throughout the highlands of Guatemala.  Each town boasts its distinct style and every huipil tells a [...]