Micro-Enterprise

Co-creating and strengthening local organizations to generate innovative economic benefits in impoverished settings

Supporting Infrastructure and Operations

• Strengthening small businesses in San Juan
• Building office space for four community organizations: weavers, organic farmers, fishermen and midwives
• Providing accounting services for ten community organizations 

Innovative Product Development

Providing design assistance to a local textile association to create new products with materials long sacred to the Maya: maguey and tulle

Opening Access to Foreign Markets

Coordinating with Aldea Artesans to organize the exportation of local women’s groups artisan products

Developing Strategies for Santiago 

• Creating municipal strategy for investment to stimulate agricultural, tourist, artisan and fishing sectors
• Collecting baseline information and generating community buy-in through a series of focus groups, interviews and surveys