Recycled Pop Top Leather Bracelet

GUATEMALAN BRACELETS
Recycled Can Tabs
Empowering Mayan Culture

Stretch and squeeze to make your new recycled can tab bracelet fit. These can also be used in your hair to decorate any pony tail or up do. The mission of this co-op, in the poorest area of Guatemala City, is to empower the families with a way to improve their quality of life. Women are provided with access to education, employment opportunities, daycare services, health care and programs for personal and professional development at this co-op. The 66 women, mostly widows who were abandoned by their husbands due to alcoholism, are sole providers of economic support for their families. The group was formed in 1988 with a Healthy Baby program while the women created products to sell and generate funds. These efforts have allowed them to become a self-sustaining association and improve their community.

Your purchase of their handcrafts has helped change La Eseranza from a squatter community of shacks made from scraps of tin and cardboard, without a sewage system, lacking electricity and potable water, to a colony with cement block houses, underground sewage pipes and other basic services.