We buy directly from Q’ero weavers in their own villages at fair trade prices. We ensure we purchase something from every family. All profits are invested in the weaver’s community in education, food security, and health projects.
Your purchase helps Q’ero children by providing income to the weaver’s family and supporting education and food security projects in the weaver’s village.
Q’ero women create textiles on small portable looms they roll up and carry across the steep mountains while herding llamas, alpacas and sheep. They can weave anywhere!
Andean textiles are a form of a symbolic language that tells the story of the people’s interdependence with the universe. The fields of color, lines, symbols, and the arrangement of all components combine like a visual poem to tell the story of life.
The Qero cut the hair of alpaca, sheep and llama to sell for cash income and to weave mesa cloths, belts, blankets, bags, and ponchos. They also knit hats and braid ropes with fiber from their herds.
Our generous donors are funding the first high school in the ethnic Hapu Q’ero region of Peru. Children will no longer have to leave their families to attend secondary school. This new high school at 12,000 feet elevation in the Andes will bring relief to many families struggling to help their children get a basic education.