Good Afternoon friends of MayaWorks! We hope you are all staying warm in this weather. If you live in Chicago, we know how you are feeling!
I want to share with all of you our New MayaWorks Volunteer Blog!
mayaworks-volunteers.blogspot.com
This is a place for MayaWorks volunteers to blog about their upcoming sales, what works and doesn't work for them in selling MW products, venue ideas, product ideas, display ideas, etc!
If you are a MayaWorks Volunteer we encourage you to follow and share on it. Contact stacey@mayaworks.org if you would like access to create a post or simply email it to me and I can post it for you!
If you are not a MayaWorks Volunteer we encourage you to become one! This is a great opportunity to directly support our artisans in Guatemala, by selling their beautiful products at your church, school, home, office, club, women's organization, neighborhood festival, youth group, senior group, or where ever else you would like! Ask any of our volunteers, this is a fun and rewarding experience!
Please contact me, stacey@mayaworks.org for more information on how to become a MayaWorks Volunteer and make sure to also visit our website www.mayaworks.org.
Stacey
MayaWorks, Marketing and Customer Relations Associate
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Two weeks ago Pat and I from Racine were invited to participate in an event that was hosted by Friendship Bridge in the northern burbs of Milwaukee. FB brings micro-credit loans to women in GU. This is there main mission, they have been in GU since the late 1980's.
They host events from time to time to which they invite supporters - established donors as well as potential donors. At these events they often sell artisan-made products as a way of generating interest and enthusiasm. They know the Maya women who make their products, tho these items as not always Fair Trade.
Susie Miller now invites us to her events - we double the amount of shopping available, we "get" this effort that we are all involved with - to support women and children in Guatemala.
So this is what I wanted to mention to MW volunteers who are wondering about ways to see MW outside the Christmas-Hannukah season.
The FB women hosted a very fun, pretty, interesting Mother-Daughter Tea.
This was held at a Community Center -- which means no one had to clean the house and it didn't cater to one particular congregation. It was 1-3:00 in the afternoon, a do-able amount of time. There was a table of pastries and cookies. There was a table for girls where they could participate in a craft - they decorated plain pencil pouches that were later filled with supplies to be mailed to school girls in GU.
And there were five tables of MW and FB items to shop. We sold close to $700, I think FB did also.
It built connections between moms, daughters, granddaughters. It was a chance for little girls to wear dresses. It was an educational opportunity. And a lot of things were sold.
And it wasn't even Christmas!