Yolanda June 10, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Yolanda grew up in Chichicastenango in the department of Quiche, in a small home with adobe walls and a dirt floor. She received six years of formal schooling and did...
Juana Gloria June 10, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Juana Gloria grew up in Chichicastenango, a cultural center for the K’iche’ Maya, the daughter of a day laborer father and housewife/weaver mother. She is the youngest of six siblings,...
Meet Erika June 10, 2024Indira Maldonado Friendship Bridge client since 2016; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2017 Erika lives in the municipality of Cantel, located within the department of Quetzaltenango in the Guatemalan highlands, where most...
Magdalena May 31, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2001; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2019 Magdalena has lived in Santa Catarina Palopó in Guatemala’s western highlands all her life, and only spoke the...
Jacinta April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2015; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2015 Jacinta’s parents worked in agriculture; she was fortunate to complete high school and earn a diploma in...
Marcela April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2006; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2019 Marcela grew up in a three-room home in El Tablón, Sololá, where she lived with her parents...
Juana April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2001; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2018 Juana lives in the rural community of Santa Lucía Utatlán in the department of Sololá. Her father...
Martha Carmen April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2019; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2022 Martha Carmen grew up in a family of 12 children—only eight of whom survived to adulthood—in Santa...
Petrona April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2020; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2018 Petrona, a mother of six, is from the rural community Santa Lucia Utatlán. She lost her father...
Rosario April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2022; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2022 Rosario grew up in Zunil, Quetzaltenango, with her mother and two older brothers. Her mother worked hard...
María April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2009; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2018 María comes from the community of Caserío Santa María El Tablón in the department of Sololá. Her...
Ruth April 24, 2024Handmade by Friendship Bridge Friendship Bridge client since 2012; part of Handmade by Friendship Bridge® since 2018. Ruth is a K’iche Maya woman from Pamezabel, a rural community in Sololá. One of nine siblings,...
