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One example of the intentionality behind uh the work that we did uh was for example I would meet with other organizations that were doing similar work in this social entrepreneurship field but I I found that the products were very detached from the the hands that were making them. Um, and so they were telling stories of of the people were helping and buying the product, but there was no interaction with. There was no community being built with the artist's hands.

And so for us, it was like, okay, let's go out into the markets and we'll sell products with the artists that made these things. Um, and I think it sort of crumbled the wall between the othering of um, this is not something we're doing for someone. This is a market in which we're engaging with one another, an exchange, an encounter, uh, sharing of lives. And that for me was how we would build community solidarity.