My name is Caryn Maxim. I live in NJ but spend 2 weeks of each month in Cajola, a Maya Mam community in the western highlands of Guatemala. (The Mam people are one of the 22 Maya ethnic groups in Guatemala.) I have been helping a group of women start a weaving cooperative, MayaMam Weavers, over the past years. I would like to share with you some of their work, some of their stories, some of their wisdom, as well as why fair trade -- or trading fairly -- matters.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Introducing Our New Compañera
We are pleased to introduce Trish McLaughlin to you. Trish has joined us – fresh from college as you can see -- to help us develop the market for us in the USA. She studied fashion and costume design in school, and will be helping us design our products. Now we can present a more professional “face” in the US since she will be able to respond to orders and inquiries in a timely way. She has already begun reorganizing our little office. Her first big project is creating a web site for us, but you will begin to see her work as we present new products over the coming months. And we look forward to her visiting us in Cajola in the near future, too.
Bienvenida, Trish!
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