Program Goals:

• Contribute to the sustainable development of local cultures and preserve their traditions in the
  long run.

• Support the local arts and crafts that continue ancestral practices and traditions.

• Bring value and visibility to the cultural contribution these crafts and their artists have to offer.

• Protect the nature that provides raw materials to these endeavors.

• Promote the passing down of knowledge to next generations through educational programs.

• Introduce improvements and upgrades to the productive process, in order to make them more
  economically viable as a source of sustenance.

• Offer coaching in marketing and management of local productions.

• Create micro funding programs that will jumpstart productive processes and create green job
  opportunities within the communities.

• Promote local collaborations and cooperative approaches that will give life and meaning to
  disappearing cultural heritage.