Co-op helps mothers earn income, keep families healthy
Posted on May 6, 2021 Mothers in Carabayllo, Peru learn from a knitting instructor in 2018 as part of Wawa Pacha, a knitting co-op organized by Socios En Salud s maternal and child health program.
Photo by Luz Peralta for Partners In Health.
In a sunlit room in Carabayllo, a woman grasps a strand of yarn and slips one of her needles through it. Between the needles is more than the tiny sweater she’s knitting. Wound up in the yarn are years of hopes and dreams, and not just for her own future.
The woman is one of several mothers who are part of Wawa Pacha, a knitting cooperative for new and expectant mothers organized by Socios En Salud, as Partners In Health is known in Peru.