Partner Artisans
 Juana Ajcot ChicajauJuana is a forty-seven-year-old mother of four and a widow from Guatemala's civil war. Her husband disappeared while on his way to work and is presumed to have been assassinated by the Guatemalan military. A year later, her father suffered the same fate. She lost her home in the October 2005 mudslide that destroyed most of the neighborhood of Santiago known as Panabaj. She now lives next door to her daughter Concepción in the displaced persons camp on the outskirts of the area devastated by the mudslide. |
 Candelaria Chicajau IxanCandelaria is twenty-four. She lives in the displaced persons camp. Although she is single, she has helped her parents care for three orphans (ages 10, 12, and 18) since her sister, the children's mother, passed away following an undiagnosed illness. Candelaria's father, now old and frail, still works as he always has carrying fuel wood from the mountains to the town of Santiago, but he does not earn enough income to support his wife, children, and orphaned grandchildren. To help her family, Candelaria has worked with handicraft since she was a young girl. |
 Petronila Chichon ReandaPetronila is a twenty-two-year-old resident of the displaced persons camp in Santiago. She lost her home in Panabaj in the mudslide. She lives with her husband, who works in fields around Santiago, and her two-year-old son. She is expecting a second child in the summer months of 2008. |
 Andrea Chiyal CaliAndrea lives in the aldea of Chacaya, which sits on the far outskirts of Santiago. Left by her husband, she is the mother of three and also cares for two orphans. Andrea is forty-years-old. |
 Juana Chiyal CaliJuana, 36, is Andrea's younger sister. She lives next door to Andrea in Chacaya. Juana's husband left her and her two children, now twelve and fourteen. She helps Andrea care for two young orphans. |
 Micaela Petzey IxbalanMicaela is twenty-five. She lives in Panabaj, in a high-risk area that she and others have reclaimed after the mudslide buried most of their houses. She and her husband have four children, ages 4, 5, 8, and 10. |
 María Pospoy CacainMaría is a twenty-six-year-old single mother. She and her 9-year-old son live in the displaced persons camp. |
 Juana Reanda PacachJuana is twenty-five. She lives in a small family compound of a few houses in a reclaimed area of Panabaj with her six brothers and sisters, including Maria, and her parents. |
 María Reanda PacachMaría lives with her sister Juana and the other five siblings in Panabaj. She is separated from her husband, who left her. She has one son who lives mostly with his father. She has tried to contest this arrangement, but has been unsuccessful. |
 Natalia Tacaxoy RatzanNatalia is twenty-four. She lives in the displaced persons camp with her parents and siblings. |
 Candelaria Tzina AjuchunCandelaria, also known as Candy, is twenty-eight. She is single and lives in the displaced persons camp with her elderly mother. Candy has worked with handicraft since she was a young girl, when the military murdered her father as he worked in the countryside near Santiago and her older siblings left to find work on the coast. In 2006 she and her mother endured the loss of Candy's disabled brother, who never recovered from the trauma he suffered during the October 2005 when he was trapped in the falling earth. |
 Concepción Sapalu SolConcepción lives in the aldea of Chacaya on the outskirts of Santiago. She is twenty-eight, has two children (ages 13 and 3) and lives with her husband who does low-paying agricultural work. |
 Concepción Petzey AjcotConcepción is a twenty-six-year-old mother of two who lives in the displaced persons camp next to her mother, Juana. She, her husband, and her seven-year-old recently welcomed the birth of a baby boy. Her father was kidnapped and presumably killed during Guatemala's civil war. |  Andrea Ratzan SapuluAndrea lives in a reclaimed high-risk area of Panabaj with her father. When she was a child, her mother passed away of an unknown illness. Later, in her teens, when her sister died in childbirth, she was forced to give up her nephew to a distant relative. She is thirty and single. |
