PERU: Indigenous Women Weave New Community Ties
Monday, 07.04.2011, 09:29am (GMT)
Fuchsia, green and turquoise yarn shuttles swiftly across the wooden loom Dora Huancahuari has learned to use. Together with other craftswomen, she has started a small weaving business which is helping to rebuild their lives in this remote, poverty-stricken Andean community torn by Peru's history of armed conflict.
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