APEC: Growing Indigenous Businesses Through Trade 2024 Chilean Participant Profiles
Australia strengthens bond with Chilean Indigenous communities.
The workshop in Chile brought together Indigenous businesses from various states of Chile representing products such as traditional jewellery, textiles, fashion, arts, foods and professional businesses.
We thank the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for funding this project under the auspices of APEC – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and for the invaluable support received from the ProChile, CONADI (Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena) and Comité de Desarrollo y Fomento Indígena por CORFO.
We look forward to future commercial collaboration between Australian and Chilean Indigenous businesses, including our participants.
Click on the names of the entrepreneurs to find out more about their businesses
Willi KiTRAL
Indigenous Family Farming, with Mapuche Huilliche origins, dedicated to contributing to the revitalization of Indigenous cultures in urban contexts through our agricultural products.
Ancestral Market
Social enterprise, dedicated to the enhancement and commercialization of products and services with the identity of native peoples through e-commerce
Vivero rinconada de naltahua
Dedicated to the production of trees and native flora of Chile.
Huenuman Orfebrería Mapuche Contemporánea
Accessories such as rings, pendants, earrings, bracelets, handmade in silver, 950 law with Mapuche iconography, urban and contemporary designs.
Arte Lanas Imperial
Exclusive textile pieces hand-woven on a Mapuche loom, using 100% sheep’s wool and natural dyes.
Yoggie
Preparation and development of functional plant-based foods for the market of people with multiple food allergies, and production of organic yogurt substitutes from oats.
Yancol
Contemporary designer garments with weddings like the Mapuche iconography, which value this costume in urbanity.
Yoggie
Angelo Patricio Quilodrán Cayún
Vegetable yogurt Protein cereals based on lupin protein Lupine vegetable meat.
Ñusta
Ericka Alejandra Portocarrero Cáceres
Fashion Accessories through Textile Design and Illustration.
Ñusta
Alex Rodrigo Portocarrero Cáceres
Fashion Accessories through Textile Design and Illustration.
Terapias y artesania kuyen ancestral
Therapies through ancestral ervolaria medisin. I weave fiber and wool and paint symbols on fabric or clothing of the native peoples.
