The Art Atlas Foundation
Mejorando Vidas, Improving Lives
For 15 years the Art Atlas Foundation woven itself throughout the region working to expand opportunities for women and to help them improve their lives. Anntarah has expanded its collection to include incredible hand craft items made by women in our training programs. Profits from these items go directly back to the women who made them.
The Art Atlas Foundation is a non-profit association, created in 2003. Every year, a percentage of our sales is dedicated to the implementation of programs and activities in pursuit of a better quality of life for the communities that make out brand possible.
Real Stories
The foundation has successfully trained 54 women weavers who, in many cases provide the primary income for their households.
Cecilia
Cecilia is a very talented artisan. She started the train program in 2017 and now she makes beautiful key chains by hand using her own designs. Her work as enabled her to improve her childrens education, and she has motivated many more woman to become self reliant and even join the program.
Norma
Norma was born in Puno, a city on Lake Titicaca in the Southernmost region of Peru. She started training with us in 2018 and since that time has become one of our main weavers. Here she's holding knit alpacas of her own design, one of many she has developed.
Yeni
Yeni is a mother of 2 and also comes from Puno. She began her training in 2017 and today she runs her own workshop where she employs other artisans from Puno.
Art Atlas Foundation
Childcare
In order to support mothers and working families Art Atlas provides day care. Here children receive exceptional care, health care check ups, and they are able to be close to one or both parents during the day.
Sister Ana
Together with the TX (TzuXing) Foundation of Taiwan, Art Atlas helped open a new school on January 14, 2020.
Lending a Hand
Anntarah supports knitting and clothing workshops with which it works, providing them with funds so that they can acquire or optimize their machinery, in addition to training, promoting entrepreneurship and business development in Arequipa.
