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THE
CORDELEG AGRICULTURAL CRAFT CENTER, brings together
more then 250 families with experience in toquilla straw
weaving. These families are from a variety of communities
throughout Cantón Chordeleg and Gualaceo. The center
bagan in 1996, with the primary focus of improving the standard
of living of its members by selling their toquilla straw
products.
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center offers many resources and opportunities to its members
including on-going training for the purpose of improving the
quality of production and making new products. |
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| Micro-credit
grants, which are used mainly for agrcultural activity, are
also among the benefits offered to its associates. Furthermore
the center promotes an organization of craftswomen wich in
turn gives value to and helps preserve the culture as well
as fortifies the ties of communitarian solidarity. |
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Today
the center is a site where the highest quality handmade
crafts are exhibited and where the member craftswomen
can sell their productos directly to customers. |
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center has a toquilla straw pocessing plant wich offers whitened
or dyed straw to the community at competitive prices. |
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CORDELEG AGRICULTURAL CRAFT CENTER (CACH), continues
to serarch for oportunities wich avois marginatizacion and
wich allows members to integrate into a consumer society and
for opportunities wich continue to improve the quality and
the variety of products in order to compete at a higher level. |
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crafts in this webpage are hademade by the craftswomen from
CACH; each piece demostrates their ability, skill and patience
as well as expresses the artisan and cultural identity of
our region. |
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