Irena’s Love for Guatemala: A Reforestation Story
Read about Y’abals collaboration with Irena DeLave and her organization, Love For Guatemala.
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February visitors: Brandi Voth’s take on Y’abal
Learn how one client is taking advantage of Yabal’s wholesale and custom design services, adding value to her mission.
Continue reading »Strengthening the local fabric
Despite the circumstances, it is necessary to continue growing, even if there is fear, between weaving and banners of protest
Continue reading »A Story of Hard Work and Resilience
We want to introduce everyone to Santa Guachiac, the leader of the Pacutamá weaving cooperative and Board Member of our organization, Yabal Guatemala. Hear from her in her own words: “Since I was a child, my mother, and my great grandmother, they know how to weave on the backstrap loom, That is their job, and
Continue reading »Celebrating World Fair Trade Day!
This past May 14 we commemorated World Fair Trade Day. This was a good moment to reflect on how Yabal is part of this World movement, promoting justice in trading partnerships between producers and consumers with a focus on environmental sustainability. We had the chance to celebrate with women from Chuicutáma, part of the Yabal
Continue reading »What does it mean to be a Fair Trade company?
Yabal is a proud member of the World Fair Trade Organization and Fair Trade Federation, which means that our business is transparent, audited and certified as a social enterprise that places people and planet before profit. As such, we want to take this opportunity to tell you more about Fair Trade and what it means
Continue reading »Fast Fashion – What on Earth is happening?
Growing up in the 80’s, it was common to inherit clothes from your older siblings or swap clothes with your cousins. Fashion and design was not such a big thing back then and wearing the same shirt more than five times was definitely not frowned upon. Today we’re looking at a new, and quite frankly
Continue reading »Women’s Garden Project in Full Bloom
Yabal is more than a textile business, we are a social enterprise! This means that the WHY of what we do is based on helping our partner communities thrive! This includes providing fair trade jobs to women weavers, educational scholarships to their children, maternity leave for weavers, and most recently, food security projects like this year’s Women’s Garden Program! The idea for the Garden
Continue reading »These past few months
These past few months have been an adaptation for all of us. While we haven’t posted many recent updates, that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been busy! We wanted to catch you up and share a bit of what our team has been up to these last few months: Yabal continued with food donations for
Continue reading »New Eyes, New Points
At the beginning of a recent needle-point workshop in the Pacutama community last month, we asked the women why the older members weren’t there.«They have bad eyesight so they figured they wouldn’t come to a workshop on needle point embroidery» to which we replied, «No, tell them to come! We have reading glasses for them!»
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