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.
