Albina was born in Juliaca, in the Puno province of Perú. She and her family have been working as artisans for more than 40 years. Her uncles, orphaned at age seven, began as a way to provide for themselves. They began by selling alpaca items in their village. As a child, Albina only attended one […]
Working with Minga since 2007 Workshop: Quito, Ecuador Products: Jewelry – Tagua Magdalena is the older of this amiable couple. She was born in 1967 in the countryside in Manabí province near the coast. Albert was born in 1972 in Baños. Magdalena laughs and says she was the country gal and he the city boy. […]
Aída was born in Ibarra on August 24, 1962. She has three sisters and three brothers. She is a widow with three children, a son, Felipe, 29, and two daughters, Anaís and Yamani, 22 and 20. Anaís is studying film production, hoping to specialize in sound production/direction, and Yamani studying dentistry. The father of the […]