Book Cover: Hand-woven on a backstrap loom, fits most hardcover books (6.75” wide x 8.5” tall x 1” deep). Available in purple with a turquoise stripe, black with red, brown with avocado, avocado with light moss green, and royal blue with black.
Partial Micro Loan: A small loan to women who have been through a training program, to help them start up a small cooperative venture.
Training Workshops: One month of specialized training workshops to learn crafts, products, or services that can be integrated into a micro finance project.
Micro Loan: A full loan to women to help them start up a cooperative venture.
The new Brown IHF Community Partner, El Proyecto Veredas, grew out of the relationship with the SYJAC community center. The project supports community-led micro-finance and sustainable development projects.
El Proyecto Veredas focuses on a micro-finance initiative that works with mothers and their children in a marginalized community in the center of downtown San Cristóbal. In the spring of 2009, the community joined national and international volunteers in the cleanup and planting of an abandoned lot on the side of a mountain in the center of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, to create an educational botanical garden which highlights local plant diversity. The mothers and children continue planting and protecting the gardens and have requested the support of the IHF to expand the project, making it economically sustainable, and thereby increasing their income and ensuring their children will be able to continue their education. The project also supports training for women to start their own cooperative businesses using micro-finance loans.
2009 Catalog - Chiapas, Mexico
