Ethical Fashion Guatemala Transparency
Ethical Fashion Guatemala Transparency
Transparency, as used in business, the humanities, and in other social contexts, implies openness, communication, and accountability.
Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed.
Hand Made in Guatemala
Why is Transparency important?
- Today you will find hundreds of Websites selling Artisan created products.
- Many make claims of supporting the Artisans on these websites.
- Do some have donation buttons for supporting the Artisans?
- If you come across such a website and you are considering a purchase. Ask first about Transparency.
- How much of this product sale you are planning to purchase actually goes to the Artisan?
Ethical Fashion Guatemala Transparency
We guaranteed through this website you are dealing directly with the Artisan that has produced the unique products you have purchased.
That Ethical Fashion Guatemala has provided the means for the Artisans to earn 80% of the retail transparency Ethical Fashion Guatemala selling prices of the products.
That Ethical Fashion Guatemala charges the Artisans 10% of the selling price for services provided.
Additional charges that Impact the profits of the Artisans include Shipping and Credit Card Processing Fees.
Our goal is to provide jobs for Artisans, not donations. Transparency Ethical Fashion Guatemala
The Corporate structure of Ethical Fashion Guatemala is a United States LLC, the term used to describe a legal Corporation.
The Future of Ethical Fashion Guatemala?
Ethical Fashion Guatemala Transparency
Artisans had Earned less then 12% of the retail selling price of their products sold in other countries.
Why?
Middlemen with E-Commerce Stores Pay Artisans the lowest prices possible.
We can help Artisans to sell direct, eliminating Middlemen, who are profiting due to the fact most Artisans do not have a website.
Artisans Designs are Stolen & Copied, sold on-line as Authentic works. Ethical Fashion Provides Copyright protection services for Artisans.
Designs of Artisans original works were stolen, copied and produced in other countries violating the Copyrights of the Guatemalan Artisans.
In 2017 an Article appeared in https://fashionista.com/2017/08/guatemalan-artists-etsy-copyright-infringement which talked about Ethical Fashion Guatemala providing Artisan needing copyright protection through the use of technology developed to track on-line Copyright Infringement of Artisans Designs.
Taking on ETSY the world leader in Handmade crafts sales. The Article went Viral.
Our Technology
Ethical Fashion Guatemala Transparency and the enforcement of Copyright Protection for Guatemalan Artisans will remain at the forefront of our fight to enable Artisans the ability to develop their Global Business capabilities.
Ethical Fashion Guatemala provides Technology services to the 600,000 indigenous Mayan artisan families living around Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre Mountains.
We ship locally designed and created products directly to customers in Australia, Europe, Canada, the U.S., and Honduras. “Guatemalan artisans now have access to global markets,” states James Dillon, the technical advisor for Ethical Fashion Guatemala.
How Ethical Fashion Guatemala generates income has been a transparency question of many skeptics?
The model is simple, we charge the Artisans a 10% Fee of the retail selling price of a product sold via our technology.
With all costs considered the Artisans now directly earn between 84% if the selling prices. Before dealing with Entrepreneurs Artisans earned less then 20%.