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Creators Helping Creators seeking Asylum

About the Artisans

bordando esperanza ~embroidering hope

"I learned to embroider here in Nogales thanks to my companions from the shelter. We have the opportunity now to demonstrate the skills that many of us have. I want to be able to bring stability , tranquility, and security to my three children."

31 yr. old artisan, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico

"The money we receive as artisans provides bus fare for my children and me to get across town to eat at the Comedor (Jesuit Soup kitchen). The children are so small, they can't walk that far."

Artisan with toddlers, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico

"I have been waiting here on the border to be safe in the U.S. for a year and a half now. My mother taught me to embroider as a child, then I taught my daughter and my son too. When I’m creating my designs and stitching, I feel better.” Artisan embroidering on the street in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

Friends of Artisans Beyond Borders

The Call: Summer, 2019

A message came from a shelter in Nogales, Mexico, 60 miles south of Tucson, where families were waiting for weeks or months for an asylum interview. It was not a request for food, clothing, and blankets. It was instead an urgent plea from migrating women for crochet needles and yarn.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/07/15/migrant-women-fleeing-violence-find-beauty-and-healing-embroidery"I

Each original, hand-stitched work of Art is a vote for beauty, faith, and self-determinism in the middle of perilous migration and family displacement.

Every piece of Heritage art offered for donation or sold through the Etsy Shop goes to the Artisans Beyond Borders Maker Fund to support trauma-informed arts and activities for children and adults stranded on the border, and also to help provide start-up funds for artisan asylum-seekers in the U.S.

Creators Helping Creators seeking Asylum

Creators Helping Creators seeking Asylum

UPDATE

Heritage Arts hand washed & sun dried by their makers on the border or in the U.S. now

About the Artisans

bordando esperanza ~embroidering hope

Friends of Artisans Beyond Borders

Keep this bright spot on the border going

Creators Helping Creators seeking Asylum

Creators Helping Creators seeking Asylum

UPDATE

Heritage Arts hand washed & sun dried by their makers on the border or in the U.S. now

About the Artisans

bordando esperanza ~embroidering hope

Friends of Artisans Beyond Borders

Keep this bright spot on the border going

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