Our Program Partnerships & Sponsors
Nexos Comunitarios
Nexos Comunitarios, is a Peruvian non-profit civil association, formed by a group of citizens, professionals, committed to reducing poverty in isolated communities within Peru; and in promoting a better understanding and true respect between different societies and cultures both nationally and internationally.
Our Initiative
Monthly Women's Entrepreneur Circle in the very underdeveloped community of Huarochiri, San Juan De Lurigancho outside of Lima, Peru. The first of its kind in this region, we are creating a safe space to share ideas, create, voice concerns, and provide entrepreneurial and confidence skills to help give women a voice, confidence, financial literacy, and financial freedom.
Yanapana Peru
Yanapana Peru’s purpose is to reduce the condition of extreme poverty in the Andean Highlands, improving the quality of life through sustainable community development. Their programs create a positive path for sustainable development through humanitarian, cultural, and social income-generating projects and by focusing on educational and health-oriented needs to create a "happier way of life".
Our Initiative
Support the development of a Textile Trade School in rural Huacahuasi, Peru to improve the quality of weaving in the area as an effort to preserve this ancient weaving tradition. By providing the tools and resources, a certification program can help legitimize weaving as a viable career and skillset and create income opportunities for the local community.
Awamaki
Awamaki works closely with female Quechua artisans in the rural Andean communities of Peru. Together with these communities, Awamaki supports women’s associations, connects them to markets and supports them in creating sustainable income opportunities for their families and communities. Although a non-profit, Awamaki uses market strategies to increase women’s income and women-led businesses.
Our Initiative
Support Awamaki on their current construction of a women's weaving community and tourism center in Ollantaytambo, Peru. Mayu Mission along with Andeana Hats is investing in resources, materials and programs that are needed to operate the new community center. Our goal is help Awamaki preserve the local vanishing weaving technique from the Huilloc and Patacancha region and aid in their women’s entrepreneurship programs.
Roots Studio
Roots Studio works with unreached communities to digitize their cultural works as IP into an online library for licensing. For almost a decade, they have preserved endangered heritage creativity and facilitated economic sustainability through art.
Our Initiative
We have partnered with Roots studio in digitizing and licensing the IP of artisan communities in Central and South America that we have built close relationships with. Through this digitization of ancient textiles and designs, we can preserve the language, designs, and oral history of these indigenous communities while helping them to secure royalties and global recognition for their artistry.
Andeana Hats
The mission behind the creation of Andeana Hats is to empower women, help support global artisans to continue their vanishing crafts, and enable them to support themselves and lead their communities out of poverty. Andeana connects artisans in Peru, Bolivia and Guatemala to global marketplaces.
Our Initiative
We are working closely with Andeana Hats and their artisan partnerships to help digitize their artisans' designs and work with local translators and scholars to document and preserve the woven Quechua language and textile symbols. We also host philanthropic tourism opportunities for travelers to aid in the preservation of vanishing crafts.