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New Hopes for the New Year in Y’abal

Update on Yabal; Learn about ways to support Yabal in 2024!

Our Fair Trade Commitment -A New Stamp

Dear Clients and Supporters of Yabal, As a small non-profit organization with 18 years of existence, Yabal Handicrafts has taken the decision to terminate our memberships in the WFTO (World Fair Trade Organization) as well as the FTF (Fair Trade Federation) as of 2023. After looking at the economic climate and the level of… View more

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… View more

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… View more

Revive Collection

An interview with Director Allison Havens about Yabal’s new Revive Collection Please tell us a bit about this collection? Yabal REVIVE is a sustainable artisan home accessories collection, featuring ecological textiles handwoven in the highlands of Guatemala. Revive is a collection of color, representing rebirth and hope for a better future. It reminds us to… View more

Fair Trade Artisan Design in Guatemala

This month, Dunitz & Company posted a great blog featuring four Fair Trade companies supporting artisans in Guatemala and their design processes with artisans. Yabal is honored to be included in this list along with these other amazing ethical brands and woman leaders! Working with artisans as an ethical company in Guatemala has it’s own… View more

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… View more

Update on Yabal Communities During Pandemic

Guatemala now has over 7,500 cases of coronavirus. There are multiple reports of inadequate hospital staff, food, medicine, and beds in centers attending patients with Covid-19. Promised government economic help and food aid has managed to reach very few of the most desperate in the country. And the virus continues to increase daily, troubling given… View more

Yabal Emergency Food Donations

We are so grateful to everyone who donated and shared our crowdfunding campaign last week! We tripled our fundraising goal and were able to raise over $2500 for food support for our partner communities of Pacutama and Chuicutama during this Covid-19 pandemic. We are humbled by the generous and quick response from people around the… View more

Yabal’s 2020 Scholarships!

Yabal has awarded scholarships to eight youth, children of our women weavers to use towards middle school and high school for 2020. Our youth are excited for this opportunity to continue their studies and look forward to achieving their dreams. Feliciana, above, is 13 years old and has just started 7th grade. She walks daily… View more

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