Wakami Sustainability Profile

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Wakami designs and sells handmade fashion accessories produced in 16 rural Guatemalan communities and sold to retailers in 20 countries. The business incubates enterprises owned by rural women business leaders and employs over 500 members of their communities. Its sustainability-related model centres on training, resources and support for women-led community businesses, with products connected to international retail markets. The available content presents Wakami as a social enterprise focused on livelihoods, community enterprise and the economic empowerment of rural women.

About Wakami

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
5 - 25

Country
Guatemala

Wakami Sustainability Actions

Handmade accessories in Guatemala

Wakami designs and sells handmade fashion accessories produced in 16 rural Guatemalan communities, to retailers in 20 countries around the world.

Incubated women-owned businesses

Wakami incubates these businesses that are owned by rural women business leaders, which employ over 500 members of their communities.

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Training and support for leaders

The business leaders begin with little education, resources or support; they start with just the dream of a better life. Wakami gives them the training, resources and support to start their business and then connects their products to international retail markets using the story of their struggles, dreams and successes.

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