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Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop

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Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop
Alternative Gift: Donation to Build New Weavers' Workshop

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A Thread of Hope and Asociación Maya are working with Building Goodness Foundation (BGF) in Charlottesville VA to raise $500,000 to construct a new headquarters, showroom, and weaving center for the co-op. The co-op has already invested over $50,000 in purchasing the land and in architect and engineering fees, and has committed to invest another $50,000 in the project. Building Goodness is an impressive organization with great values and people.
 
The project will provide a safer, larger, facility where the co-op can:
  • have enough space to at least triple its production capacity and thus its ability to provide more well-paying work for its member weavers and other staff;
  • have an appealing space for a retail store, wholesale showroom, and education center, near an established tourist destination, thus increasing retail sales and overall earnings;
  • provide a lunchroom/presentation space for tour groups to have a traditional Guatemalan meal while learning more about the co-op and its community—weaving, the history of the co-op and its local communities, Guatemalan socioeconomic conditions, Mayan culture, and rural Mayan daily life. Through building a network of tourists who feel more connected to the co-op, the women hope to develop “friends of Asociación Maya” who will contribute to scholarships for their children and sponsor community development projects;
  • provide meeting space for indigenous women to participate in workshops about women’s health, healthy relationships, healing from trauma, medicinal herbs, co-ops, business management, and many other topics;
  • have room for tourists to participate in week-long hand-dyeing and backstrap loom weaving workshops while living on site with staff;
  • provide workers with a safe dormitory to avoid arduous daily commutes home; and
  • offer a safe, structurally sound, energy-efficient building for workers and customers.
Check out this video and this video from one of Building Goodness Foundation’s site visits to the co-op.
 
This video includes an interview with the architect.
 
Click HERE to donate.
 
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