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"Your purchase of Sanyork Fair Trade products doesn’t only support the Peruvian artisan and helps keep alive the tradition of Andean crafts techniques. It also helps youth and families of Cuzco, Puno, Cajamarca, Huancavelica, Junin, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Ica and Lima achieve self-sufficiency and employment sustainability." Promperu, 2021The mission of Sanyork Fair Trade came with a dream…a dream to help young artisans thrive working on their craft, youth from Cuzco, Cajamarca, Junin, Ayacucho, Hu …

It has been twenty-four years since that cloudy and rainy June morning in downtown Lima. I was stopped in a busy park by a teenager, asking if he could shine my dusty shoes for one sol….Daniel Cateno Velasco was 16 years old, growing up away from his family to support himself and not be a burden to his ailing parents who struggled to keep their small farm and younger siblings 200 kilometers away from Peru’s crowded capital city. In conversation he confessed to being hungry and unable to secure a …

Buy direct from Sanyork Fair Trade artisan producers selling online 24/7We ship direct to your doorstepTo maintain the integrity of a direct relationship between the producer, we offer direct fulfilment from our shipping room to our buyer. This ensures that we provide you with direct from the workshop pricing. No middle man, just real people who are passionate about what they do! With a mission for over 21 years to create opportunities for artisans in Peru, Mexico and Guatemala. Allowing artisan …

Artisanal craftsmanship is intertwined within the fabric of Peru, with the tradition of weaving stretching back 5,000 years, from the coastal cities of Paracas and Nazca, to the high Andean peaks of Cusco and Ayacucho.This rich heritage will not protect itself, however, as it is vulnerable, as every consumer industry is, to losing a demand and thus not being able to support the supply.The first point to tackle this issue, of generating popularity amongst a largely unknown source of fashion in we …

What we can learn from the world’s independent makers, and why preserving these ways of working means sowing the seeds for better systems going forward.The onset of COVID-19 prompted billions of workers to shift their work life to their home offices for the first time, introducing a new working style. Yet as a large part of society globally faces this apparently radical and sudden shift in how we live and work, we must remember that home-based work has existed in emerging economies, and right he …