{"id":1433,"date":"2009-04-01T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2009-04-01T14:17:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:17:49","slug":"temux-mayan-artisans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/temux-mayan-artisans\/","title":{"rendered":"Temux Mayan Artisans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/morrale.jpg\" target=\"photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/morrale1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" alt=\"morrale.jpg\" class=\"main_img_right\" \/><\/a>Today I drug our village into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TemuxMayanArtisans.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Age<\/a>. Emily has been working on this idea of helping the locals to form a craft co-op. This would help our people in so many ways:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work the international marketplace, gaining DOLLARS which have a big advantage in exchange rate<\/li>\n<li>Brings outside money into the local economy, making things better for everyone here (not just the craftspeople)<\/li>\n<li>Teach women skills for managing a small business<\/li>\n<li>Give the women a feeling of empowerment<\/li>\n<li>Derive an additional source of income, to help pay for better healthcare and education for their kids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After MONTHS of humming and hawing on how to go about this, Emily finally just commissioned one of the local women to make a bag, and we&#8217;re going to sell it online. If it works, we can show the women of the town that this will REALLY WORK. They maintain the traditional Mayan skepticism, and I don&#8217;t blame them: it&#8217;s kindof rediculous to think that someone can take a picture, type on a computer, and someone else thousands of miles away that speaks a different language will send you a pile of money. But I guess this is the big test, huh? So please click the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TemuxMayanArtisans.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to our online store and check it out. If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass the link along.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">www.TemuxMayanArtisans.etsy.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I drug our village into the Internet Age. Emily has been working on this idea of helping the locals to form a craft co-op. This would help our people in so many ways:&nbsp;&nbsp; Work the international marketplace, gaining DOLLARS which have a big advantage in exchange rate Brings outside money into the local economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}