Our Program Partnerships & Sponsors

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.