SHARING A SMILE

ANDEAN TRADITION GIVES BACK

The ancient arts and crafts of the Andes still thrive today in rural areas of Peru. Unfortunately, the women who practice them don’t. For many of them, life is at the subsistence level and profitable work is hard to find. Our Social Project—SHARING A SMILE—helps generate work for these women.

Andean Tradition donates a percentage of all our online sales and Alpaca Shows to a fund that goes directly to helping the children and families who produce our alpaca toys.

 

Weaving a brighter future

Give beautiful hens, turtles, snowmen, llamas, mice and more. These beautiful and delicate toys are made with Alpaca yarn and love.

By uniting the efforts of many people in this project, we hope to achieve lofty goals through a social network that creates goodwill and changes lives.

We seek to help women in the central Andean zone of Peru. These women are mostly mothers with families, and they work together performing manual labor to sustain their households.

This group is led with unfailing determination by Carmen. She supervises groups and helps others with their work in various towns in the central zone of Peru. Andean Tradition continues to help the people in this area by donating clothing and other needed items on each visit to Peru.

Through SHARING A SMILE and our personal contributions, I am able to fulfill the obligation I feel to contribute to the improvement of the quality and standard of life of this wonderful group of women, mothers and spouses.  My hope is that we can help stimulate the sales and value of Peruvian crafts done by the women of my beloved Peru.

Carla McCue
Andean Tradition