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How to Keep Indigenous Families Thriving in Mexico AND Support Ancient Textile Traditions.
Innovation through collaboration: Meet DAVA Artisan Design
DAVA Artisan Design supports 20 Zapotec women and their families in their Oaxacan homeland, plus more than 150 local textile artisans supplying them in Oaxaca. DAVA’s collaboration with The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A & M University, and MIT means that DAVA Artisans will continue to grow their business, which directly protects and supports indigenous women and their textile traditions. With your support of DAVA Artisan Design, these women will be able to remain stably-employed in a life-giving, life-sustaining artisanal endeavor, and stay with their families in their homeland, instead of seeking work away from their families and their Oaxacan roots.
To do so, DAVA Artisan Design must provide simple dorm housing for partnering university intern students, visiting experts and trainers, funders, and artisan partners who make the trek to the remote location in Oaxaca, with no hostels or hotels nearby. Without this new dorm space, the closest accommodations for overnight guests are 30 miles away through the mountains due to a lack of local resources.
Can You Help?
DAVA has already raised half of the $30,000 needed to build sleeping spaces and bathrooms for students, visiting artisans, and other partners. The next step is raising the remaining $15,000 to finish constructing and furnishing these dorms by November 2023. To expand and enhance the DAVA Artisans complex and help DAVA to continue a sustainable lifeline for the indigenous women and their families in Oaxaca, your funds will build and furnish:
Six second-story dorm rooms with beds, dressers, and linens
Plumbing and the finish-out of three bathrooms with toilets, basins and showers
A staircase connecting dorm accommodations to the first floor
A new roof for the second-floor expansion
Thank You Gifts
We would be honored to receive donations of $20, $50, $100 or whatever you feel comfortable offering.
For donors in the following donation ranges, you will receive the following gifts from DAVA, too.
$20-$100 donation:
A personal message from our team thanking you for your generosity
$250-$499 donation:
Tote bag with DAVA logo
$500-$999 donation:
Tote bag with DAVA logo, a leather stamped DAVA keychain made by DAVA with leftover materials
$1000-$1499 donation:
Tote bag with DAVA logo, handwoven palm basket from Xula Palm Craft, a leather stamped DAVA keychain made by DAVA with leftover materials
$1500-$2000
Tote bag with traditional embroidery, handwoven palm basket from Xula Palm Craft, a leather stamped DAVA keychain made by DAVA with leftover materials
A plaque outside the new constructed rooms with donor names
Donation Instructions:
WE ARE A federally registered mexican CHARITY THAT CAN ISSUE DONATION RECEIPTS FOR TAX PURPOSES IN MEXICO (not yet applicable in the us). IF YOU WANT TO make A DONATION, WE CAN ACCEPT THEM THROUGH these CHANNELS:
OUR details for direct transfers and using western union:
Recipient’s Name: First Middle, Last
Yuri Sarahi, Garcia-Garcia
Email:
info@tejiendoalianzas.org
Name: TEJIENDO ALIANZAS A.C.
Bank: BANCO MERCANTIL DEL NORTE, S.A “BANORTE”
Account number: 1001261809
CLABE: 072610010012618092
Branch: 3503
Swift code: MENOMXMT
Muchísimas gracias for your help in supporting these women and their traditions in Oaxaca. Please contact me directly with any questions about this mission and needs.
Richard Hanson
General Director
Tejiendo Alianzas
info@tejiendoalianzas.org
+52 1 951 199 8797
Xicotencatl 315-5
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca
Mexico
68000
