Ergonomic benches for Mexican backstrap weavers
Improve Mexico health
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Summary
This project: teaches carpenters how to make the ergonomic bench. It trains weavers to use the bench to protect their health and increase their income potential, while also preserving weaving culture.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The ergonomic bench provides indigenous weavers with relief from pain and physical disability. Unlike the traditional kneeling posture, the ergonomic bench works in harmony with the body. It enables women to produce more textiles of better quality and increase their ability to provide for their families, while preserving their culture. We help carpenters learn to make the bench and we teach weavers to train each other to use the bench well, so that local communities can be self sufficient.
Activities
We provide an educational resource kit to help carpenters increase their skills & livelihood while ensuring that the ergonomic features of the bench are preserved. We provide training to enable women to get maximum benefit from using the bench.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $775
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $14,185
Total Funding Goal: $14,960
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The ergonomic bench helps women increase family income, safely. This project helps local carpenters make benches for women in their communities, & helps women protect their own health while providing better nutrition & education for their children.
Project Message
What used to take me three days to weave now takes two. With the bench I can weave for hours with no pain! My weaving comes out better, with straighter edges and more evenly packed weft.
- Maria, Beneficiary of the original project in Guatemala
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Karen Piegorsch
Founder, Director
4901 N. Calle Luisa
Tucson, AZ 85718
United States
5204001017
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Synergo Arts
4901 N. Calle Luisa
Tucson,
AZ
85718
United States
(520) 400-1017
http://www.synergoarts.org
Synergo Arts's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Ergonomic benches for Guatemalan backstrap weavers |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Mexico
and can also be found under 
Economic Development.
For more information about Mexico, read the Human Development Report on Mexico or the Wikipedia entry for Mexico.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on May 13, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 14, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Progress with preparation of start-up kits
By Karen Piegorsch - Project Director, May 13, 2009 02:37 PM
The demand is obvious and the need is clear: relief from pain and disability, and increased earning potential for women artisans who depend on their textile craft for their survival.
We’ve made tremendous progress. Preparations are approx. 85% complete for the start-up kit that will enable carpenters to make the bench. The donations this project has received through GlobalGiving through 2008 have been used to help produce the educational video, and create the engineering diagrams. Thank you for helping make this possible!
Synergo Arts is committed to a grassroots approach that helps artisan communities become self-sufficient rather than dependent on outside support. We seek to help the local people establish their own infrastructure for the bench, including fabrication, promotion, distribution, microfinance, and training.
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