Intercrafts Peru

Intercrafts Peru, the export marketing section of Central Inter-regional de Artesanos del Peru (CIAP), represents 20 Peruvian artisan cooperatives with a total membership of about 400 artisans and their families. Representatives from all 20 producer groups meet once a year to make decisions about budgeting, operating costs, shipping, and to elect a new board of directors. Artisan groups belonging to CIAP come from Ayacucho, Puno, Cusco, Pucallpa, and the poorer barrios surrounding Lima. CIAP offers its members benefits such as health care, a rotating loan fund, advances to purchase raw materials, a community soup kitchen, school supplies and books. The women who make the beautiful arpilleras (tree skirts & bean bag nativities) are members of one of CIAP's partners, the Kuyanakuy Cooperative, which means "loving one another" in Quechua.

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Sitting together in this workspace has improved our skills by learning from each other. We didn't know each other before, now we have more community and unity. - Atule Nyaaba - Trade Aid, Ghana.

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