Miranda Bernard, Marjorie Rodrigues and Helen Thomas, producers of Amerindian art and craft, cassava-based products and the popular potato wine also known as Fly are a few of the many women successfully using the traditional indigenous products they produce to earn a livelihood.
Bernard, who specialises in the production and sale of art and craft, and Rodrigues who produces, buys and sells cassareep are both single parents who have used the profits from the sales to help to educate their children.
Stabroek Weekend encountered these resilient women peddling their offers during the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs Cultural Extravaganza that included an art and craft exhibition, and sale of Indigenous beverages and foods held at the National Park tarmac earlier this month.