Dr. Teresa Harrison’s Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management students engaged in a social entrepreneurship project with the women of the Shipibo Tribe in Perú.
During the Spring 2023 semester, Dr. Teresa Harrison’s Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management students engaged in a social entrepreneurship project with the women of the Shipibo Tribe in Perú. This tribe makes most of its money from its artisan goods, jewelry, tapestries, key chains, and purses, which are quality, hand-crafted products. The project in this course was to assist the Peruvian women with generating sales to provide capital for them to expand their business and to attract a client base to purchase their handmade products in order to sustain themselves. This was a wonderful opportunity for the students to learn what it might be like to be an entrepreneur.
Although the class has now concluded, everyone is welcome to purchase goods or make a donation by contacting Yesenia Alcala at yalcala@student.uiwtx.edu. Learn more about the women of the Shipibo tribe here: https://wgctravelblogue.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/solidarity-with-shipibo-women-from-the-amazon/. Questions about the project? Please contact Dr. Teresa Harrison at teresa.harrison@uiwtx.edu.