ELÍAS

Lima, Perú
District: Rimac
Province: Lima
Region: Lima

The Rimac district of Lima, Peru’s capital, houses one of the largest populations of rural Peruvian migrants, and this sudden migratory expansion has created an impressive economic boom in districts that were formerly little more than makeshift shelters.
Elias, an expert in “Maquinask’a” embroidery, migrated with his family from the Junin province to Lima in 2012 in search of a better future. Today, his main source of income is traditional embroidery, and his embroidery shop even bears the name of his children, Daniel & Miguel.

OUR POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT

We have built a business model based on the quality of life of our collaborators, starting with fair salary payments. We generates employment cocreating with artists from vulnerable areas of different provinces of the country.
More than 23 popular artists from Ayacucho, Huánuco, Huancayo, Cusco, Pucallpa, Lima and Arequipa are benefited by our teamwork with the craftsmen.

COMMITMENT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

We have an environmental, health and safety policy that establishes group goals for key environmental aspects. To promote the responsible consumption and to educate our community so they will value the environment as we do. We produce 3 collections a year. We reuse all the waste of our raw material, making accessories or dolls.The materials we use come from sustainable sources, as well as the wastes of deadstock materials from the textile and leather industry.

2022 AIDER

The main objective is to promote the conservation of the Amazon forests, where families of native communities of the Shipibo Conibo and Cacataibo ethnic groups live, and to contribute to improving their quality of life.
We will achieve this by working hand in hand between Polleras de Agustina, native communities and AIDER, in the development and co-creation of "Products with history", which come from a sustainable management of natural resources, through the Forestry Alliance initiative.