We are back with our series, Peace Corps Journals to hear about our current and past volunteers who have served close to Mayu’s artisans in Peru.  Madeline Wu shares here experience with weavers. For more on Peru and artisans, subscribe to our RSS feeds, follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook.

Every week, I find my way to the caserio where my artesans live.  One of my small business projects involves an artesan association.  The artesans weave beautiful cloth that they use in their daily lives.  I walk about an hour to reach my artesans, who live in the rural part of El Faique.  Even with a small pueblo like El Faique, the townsfolk
tend to be the richer, better educated folks.  The farmers live on the
outskirts of town or further.  Rumor has it that the furthest caserio
from El Faique is a two-day walk or an 8-hour motorcycle ride.

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