Fair Trade
FairTrade Caravans is a social enterprise believing in people and planet before profit and passionate about the way fundraising is done and how products are purchased. It partners with schools and nonprofits giving back 25 percent of sales while supporting artisans and farmers around the world. Its fair trade products are made or grown with no child labor, while providing fair wages, safe working conditions, and sustainable practices, ensuring that the producers — many of whom are women — have the opportunity to better themselves, their families, and their communities. Together Women Rise will receive 25 percent of all sales purchased through this link. Offer expires April 15, 2022.
Bird + Stone is a jewelry company that gives back. Bird + Stone’s jewelry is ethically made in the USA, and the company donates 10 percent of every purchase to support causes like women’s health, poverty alleviation, and girls’ education. Elana founded the company after selling jewelry to fundraise for a volunteer trip to Kenya. She was inspired by the power of collective donations, and wanted to create a way for people to support their favorite causes with everyday purchases. Together Women Rise will receive 20 percent of all sales when you select ‘Dining for Women’ in the ‘How Did You Hear About Us?’ question at checkout. Shop now. Offer expires March 3, 2022.
Books
Non-Fiction
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
By Rigoberta Menchu
Recommended by Creamos
From Amazon: Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
By Daniel Wilkinson
Recommended by Creamos
From Amazon: Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were “disappeared”) at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government.
Films
Recommended by Creamos
From Amazon: On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for 17-year-old Maria by her Kaqchikel parents.
Recommended by Creamos
From Amazon: Inside the web of conspiracy behind the murder of Guatemalan human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi
