SHIPIBO COMMUNITIES - UCAYALI PERU

Pucallpa, Perú
Province: Pucallpa
Region: Ucayali

Thanks to the Forestry Alliance implemented by @AIDER, we have been working with women from 5 indigenous communities in Ucayali. Since 2019, we have been part of their training in sustainable fashion, reinforcing their knowledge to improve their Shipibo - Conibo embroidery production. This iniciative contributes with the improvement of the quality of life and the conservation of the forests of the native communities involved in the project.

Artisan women are inspired by their indigenous worldview and are taught from small to express it in pieces of art, where they shape the KENE (designs).

Women do not use elements to trace or measure the designs, they do not make any type of sketch or previous model. They are simply placed in front of the object and begin to translate kenyan, either painting, embroidering or sculpting, as they imagine it at the moment.

This joint work is achieved thanks to the Forest Alliance, an initiative of AIDER, USAID and ALTHELIA, which promotes interculturality, the empowerment of indigenous women and the conservation of Amazonian forests.

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.

2025 - 2026 AIDER & NIIBIRI

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 NIIBIRI, AGUSTINA, 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.