Welcome to Corazon Latino’s Tiendita!
This Giving Tuesday and during the holiday season, please consider supporting Corazón Latino‘s mission to reconnect families with nature and continue to build resilience among vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For Giving Tuesday, we are delighted to bring you these beautifully embroidered face masks, handmade with care by skilled artisans in Yucatan, Mexico. They are wonderful gifts with a purpose! Priced at $16 each, proceeds will fund our work to build resilience among vulnerable communities.
Meet the skillful hands behind these beautiful masks:
My name is Diego Enrique May Can, and I am from Kimbila Izamal, Yucatan. My town is known as the cradle of embroidery. People here make blouses, dresses, guayaberas and other typical garments from Yucatan.
My small workshop is made up of my own family. Usually, we make embroidered garments as well, but because of the pandemic, sales dramatically decreased. That is why we are now making embroidered face masks.
The entire process is carried out at my house by my family. We do all the fabric cutting, painting, embroidery, ironing, and finally the sanitizing and packaging of the masks.
We have been in the family business for more than 15 years and we are very happy to share our work with you.
Diego (pictured center, white shirt) and his family in Yucatan, Mexico