Lima North

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In 2010, as demand for Mamacha's hand knitted products was seeing successful growth, Amy began working with a new group of women to the north of Lima.  She had previously visited a women's centre where she met women keen to work and knit, but who had no market or means of attracting any orders.  Amy gave them some detailed designs and plenty of guidance on quality control, and the first order was a great success.  Since then we have ordered more and more products from these knitters, and they too are growing in number.  These knitters are hard working and motivated and keep a high level of quality control.  They live about an hour's drive north of the very outskirts of Lima, in the desert that covers the whole of Peru's coast.  Their homes are extremely basic as there is little infrastructure in these areas - electricity, water and gas have yet to be connected.

Our local co-ordinator buys the alpaca wool from Michell in Lima and distributes it to the women, who meet three days a week in a local hall to knit our orders, as seen in the picture below.  They are paid for their finished work immediately in cash and it is recorded who has knitted which products.  They attach our Mamacha product tags to their finished products, and write their name on it so you'll know exactly who has knitted your garment.  They are thrilled to have had a steady stream of work since 2010 and we look forward to a long relationship with them.

The photo below shows the ladies meeting with James.