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Mission

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.