Munay Rumi

Munay Rumi - San Juan de Luriancho, Lima
Evangelina Pizarro, Sonia Anahue, Silvia Vargas, Ernesto Alca

This group produces sterling silver jewelry and incorporate intricate styles like filigree into their beautiful products. Interestingly enough, these artisans learned to produce jewelry in a factory, in poor work conditions. They decided to become independent, but their small scale of production made competition extremely difficult: each one worked to identify customers and attend various fairs. Finally, they decided to work together, and at that point they learned of the Fair Trade organization, Bridge of Hope.

As a new group, they struggled to come up with new designs because it was hard to find the money for materials. But a large order from the Presbyterian Women in 2007 gave them the financial boost they needed to invest in supplies.

Now they are constantly developing new products,  have quite a robust product line and are doing quite well.

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