MakiInc.com sells handmade Peruvian products to assist impoverished women
About MakiInc.com
I never planned on starting a business. In spring 2008, I volunteered with a group called Cross Cultural Solutions, a volunteer placement organization that helps participants find fulfilling, short-term opportunities all over the world. I'm comfortable speaking Spanish, so I chose to spend a month in Peru. My placement turned out to be in a women's prison, high in the Andes, in Ayacucho. There were about 160 women incarcerated and most were serving sentences for drug trafficking.
