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Worry Doll Travel Set
Worry Doll Travel Set

Don't let your worries get the best of you even when you're on the road. The Worry Doll Travel Set features a pouch made from traditional Guatemalan fabric and five handcrafted dolls. According to Guatemalan legend, worry dolls have the ability to remove worries from sleeping children. Children tell one worry to each doll when they go to bed at night and place the dolls under their pillow. In the morning the dolls have taken their worries away.

HANDCRAFTED IN GUATEMALA

  • Guatemalan cotton fabric and cibaque
  • Assorted Colors
  • The 2 largest dolls: 0.75W x 3.25H inches; The 3 smaller dolls: 0.5W x 1.75H inches; All slip pockets: approximately 1.25H; Pouch: 6W x 6.57H inches (when opened and flat); 2 fabric strips: 6.75L x 0.5W inches
  • Includes 5 worry dolls. There are 5 slip pockets inside the pouch to place the dolls.
  • Handcrafted in Guatemala

SKU: 8813000

THE MAKERS

UPAVIM is an acronym for Unidas Para Vivir Mejor, "United For A Better Life." This group of women lives in a squatter community named La Esperanza (Hope) on the outskirts of Guatemala City. In 1989, UPAVIM was organized to offer much needed health and educational services within this community, where many families had fled from Guatemala’s civil war and overpopulation in the capital city. Since then, the organization has grown to include income generation programs, including handicraft training and production, a bakery, a soy product production, medical clinic, pharmacy, medical laboratory, growth monitoring program and tutoring program for families with limited choices.For member women artisans, craft work is fit into a daily routine of child care, housework and volunteering in other programs at the UPAVIM community center. Ten Thousand Villages has purchased products from UPAVIM since 1994.
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