Blog #128: Update on Mercado Global

In 2017, the Foundation funded the project with Mercado Global on “Advancing Women’s Health and Financial Literacy in Rural Guatemala.”  This resulted in Mercado Global giving 184 workshop training sessions to 195 women artisans from 22 cooperatives.  These bi-weekly theoretical and technical training sessions cover topics in financial literacy such as The Benefits of Saving, Financial Management, and Personal and Mobile Banking, and in women’s health topics such as stress management, nutrition, medical screenings, and reproductive health.  AllPeopleBeHappy foundation renewed funding of $10,000 for this project in January, 2018 to allow for continue training and to add 150 additional women artisans for a total of 350.