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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To celebrate our work together in 2019 Yabal took our 41 backstrap loom weavers to the Xetulul amusement park, in Retalhuleu, Guatemala. The park is a major tourist destination about 2 hours from their community and is similar to Disney Land. Tourists from all over Central America travel to Guatemala just to visit this the
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As October is Fair Trade month, I wanted to take a moment and reflect on what Fair Trade means for me and specifically for all of us at Yabal. I think for people that only look at Fair Trade through a business, money-bottom-line lens, it might not be the «smartest» business move. Normally in business
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