I am one of two new volunteers in Y’abal, we are both from Estonia and spend two months in Guatemala learning Spanish, experiencing culture and trying to participate in something that aims to make a change. Y’abal is one of those places. Y’abal seems like a place where magic is made – yarns turned into [...]

Melting icebergs, cities covered by a thick layer of smog, turbid rivers and oceans and miserable forests – those are the scenarios that usually show up when talking and thinking about our common future. Yet our common future may also look a lot more positive. After all, we increasingly take a critical stance towards our [...]

Hello everyone! I’m Dominika, I come from Poland, since December I’ve been working as a volunteer at Y’abal Handicraft. Last weekend we had a chance to go to one of the communities that we are helping. It’s called Pacatuma and it’s situated in the Alaska mountains, two hours by bus from Xela. It wasn’t my [...]

  Being in Belgium again for two months made me think about a lot of things in our society. Belgium has so many advantages, like social security, health care and safety. But sometimes I get very disappointed, walking in the shopping streets of Hasselt, passing hundreds of store with very cheap cloths, way too many [...]

Clearly, Y’abal Handicrafts’ main mission is to generate opportunities for women in Guatemala. Yet, our corporate social responsibility does not stop at the borders of this country in Latin America: recently, I, the partner in the Netherlands, started a collaboration with “Mode Met een Missie” (meaning “fashion with a mission”; its website, http://www.modemeteenmissie.nl, is only [...]

Hi Everyone, I would like to talk a bit about the creation of our products. The main goal of the Y´abal project is creating a new source of income for these poor community of female weavers by selling their products made on the back strap loom. Maya-women have been weaving on the back strap loom [...]

Y’abal handicrafts es una organización de artesanía en Guatemala la cual pretende fortalecer grupos de mujeres tejedoras y establecer cooperativas auto sostenibles con un mercado nacional e internacional. Y’abal handicrafts trabaja bajo las condiciones de Comercio Justo; garantizando que las mujeres tejedoras, tengan una participación adecuada del beneficio total. Se enfoca en la mujer como [...]