Corporacion Arte Gourd

Arte Gourd is a fair trade cooperative for displaced people in Central Colombia that uses local raw materials and Totumo gourds to create uniquely green gifts. Arte Gourd is a small fair trade cooperative in Ibagué, a city of roughly 500,000 people in central Colombia. Arte Gourd was founded by 14 internally displaced artisans, who produce traditional crafts from the indigenous totumo plant. Each of the artisans have received business skills training and plan to impart these same skills and the group’s production standards to new cooperative members. As fair trade artisans, ... more