tika

9/07/2013 6:32:00 PM

With significant unemployment, poor education and inequity amongst

the population of Peru, people struggle to take care of themselves and their families.

In 1996, Mercy Sisters Joan Doyle, Patricia McDermott and Jackie Ford
RSM chose to live and work with the people of Cerro Candela, Tres de Mayo and tex-Hacienda. An area in the northern zone of Lima, Cerro Candela is very poor, has no paved roads, no running water or sewerage and has very high levels of unemployment.

There are many positive outcomes resulting from womens

employment including reduced poverty and better health and education for children. Therefore, the Sisters chose to focus their efforts on improving the lives of women and children in particular by offering practical help a source of clean water education, childminding and medical facilities.

Funding for the project has come from generous Australian donors and
through sales of handicrafts and knitted products.

The Tika Fashion workshop was established in 2006 to focus on

producing high quality, knitted products including school scarves, gloves and beanies as well as footy scarves and other unique gifts.

100% of the sale of the goods produced by the workshop goes directly to the women in the workshop providing a fair, living wage and a clean, pleasant working environment in which to learn new skills and socialise. volunteers

Tikaperu markets these products in Australia and is staffed by