The partners of Colombianoz. The associations, cooperatives, small companies and artists all work towards building and promoting a quality craft industry and social projects for sustaining communities. The rules of fair trade are applied by Colombianoz and underpin all their dealings with their Colombian partners.
OUR PARTNERS
TEJE TEJE : a non-profit making organisation that work on community projects to support the indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada region of Santa Marta in the north of the country.
CHILAMO bags : a small company whose social project focuses on the handcraft of the women of a small village of Punta Canoas, which is on the coast in the north of the country.
SUSU WAYUU FOUNDATION : a foundation to help the ethnic tribe Wayuu of the region of Guarjira in the north of the country, which is struggling for recognition, and to aid it in its cultural recovery.
COOPARTNERSANOS : a cooperative of artists created in Cartegena to promote and develop the craft industry of the region and the subsequent commercialisation of the industry. They work in collaboration with the Association of Women of San Jacinto, for the making of traditional hammocks.
LA LIBELULA : an organisation for the promotion of hand crafted leather accessories created by single mothers.
PROMOTORA DE COMMERCIO SOCIAL : a non-profit making organisation that promotes the creation and development of small artists and subsequent commercialisation of the crafts.
COOPORACION INCUBADORA DE URABA : A non-governmental, non-profit making organisation whose priority is to develop programs for the craft industry of Tule-cuna and the promotion of its indigenous culture.
CITRINO Collares : a small company that works in small groups or “single cells” for the development, promotion and commercialisation of the craft industry to provide a trade for vulnerable people such as the woman of a family, persons with a handicap and those that need to be integrated back into society.
TRIETNIA : this company has an aim to produce and commercialise the ethnic products that express the culture of the tribe Zenu of the indigenous reservation of San Andres of Sotavento based between the regions of Cordoba and Sucre.
ANDINES : For 20 years the Cooperative Andines has been working to put in place an infrastructure for commerce, with practices that are the most equitable.
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