Our Mission:

1. To put people before profit

2. To buy from democratically organized, artisan-founded cooperatives

3. To pay a fair price to the artisans, enabling  

    their communities to prosper from the   

    grassroots up

4. To give indigenous peoples an incentive to

    continue their important cultural traditions 

   of weaving, basketry, and ceramic making

5. To involve the consumer in a partnership    

    which sustains rather than exploits the rich

    craft heritage of Latin America

6. And to address the problems of poverty at 

    the community level first

We combat exploitation at every level. When it is a daily struggle to survive, people will often sell their hard work for much less than its value just to be able to feed their families.