Name: Association of producers Artesian Rasuwillka.
Location: Town Ayacucho
Products: Carpets ayacuchanos, carving in the stone of Huamanga and retable.
The association of artesian producers Rasuwillka is one of the association of craftsmen who has had a unit evolution in basic organisations. Its origins go up at the years of the Ayacucho. He will fight even in the worth moments of political violence, in fact, it composed of craftsmen who form part of the Familiar Association of the prisoners and the disappeared for political reasons, like such had intense contacts with the Service of Paz and Justice it led at a national level at the Padre Neptalí Liceta; years after, for 1986 was done a Independent Association with own legal function and position of agent, affiliating itself at the AIP in 1987.

“In the years which the violence were greater in Ayacucho, the meeting place like the depositor of products practically stayed clandestine, so its not rare that a strong house assaulted at night and one could not complain to anybody, almost always there are army members but the “guilty” were In those circumstances of one of the houses 10 to 12 young people left, each one with a bulk of crafts in there shoulders, they were association’s members that took the products until the load agency to dispatch at Lima”.
The meeting place always changed, until 1990 a land was bought and began the construction of the own premises in 1991.
In 1992 when all the problems occurred in AIP, Rasuwillka had an important role, before economically god supported economical problems in the first years of CIAP. In 1993 appear the company general service Rasuwillka especially to realise others productive and commercials activities, nevertheless recently since 1999 begin to manage commercials of the artesian products.

The organisation

The organisation of Rasuwillka is in a constant evolution from the more rudimentary, with a directive of 4 members to the most advanced where each member of the association had his own responsibility, an important factory was the cohesion that was maintained since the beginning which permits the rotation tasks and the responsibilities between all the members. As a didactic question we will detail the functions of the leaders, since it can be regarded as a model of organization.
The functions, in addition to which it demists the President, like legal representative of association and those corresponding to other loads which is accustomed by statutes, are as follows:
President: He convenes at the Assemblies and the meetings and chairs these last.
The Secretary of the acts and files: In addition to its normal functions it is the person charged to carry the register of assistances of the partners to the meetings, the assemblies and other activities.
Secretary of the economy: it is charged to withdraw the money of the bank and to make the payments with the partners when these payments are not done by cheques. It is also the person who undertakes to perceive the fines and the economic sanctions of the partners. It holds the control of the loans of the rotator funds.
Coordinator of production: It is the person who undertakes to distribute the orders and to receive the products; he has with her load two people who occupy themselves of qualitative control. The reception of the products is carried out Saturdays afternoon; the products are qualified and immediately paid with the craftsmen, with an exception when the value of the goods is sufficient to pay by cheque.
Secretary of the internal relations: It is the person in charge of the control of rotations for the various tasks in Association. Thus when there are enough people to make packing it is that which indicates those which will carry out this task. It is also the person charged to take care of the wellbeing of the partners, if one of them is sick it must coordinate so that this person receives from the assistance through the internal insurance of health of Association.
Secretary Monitoring and discipline: It is the person charged to take care of all the properties of Association; thus, when there is a certain activity it owes responsibility the handling of the material so that it is restored at the end of the activity. Its activities and its behaviour in the meetings, is also given the responsibility to annotate the behaviour of all the partners, his report/ratio will be used to give a pointing at the time of qualifying the partners for the distribution of the utilities.
Vocals: The vocals have a very important role in Association, because they are the representatives charged to communicate, carry the quotations for the meetings, activities and other tasks. There are other leaders with functions less important than we mention for problems of spaces.
When the activities were carried out, in a preliminary meeting one completely distributed the tasks between all the members.
At the end of the year, in the annual balance sheet, each leader submits his report/ratio and a complete inventory of his responsibilities, for example, the coordinator of the formless production on the recording of the production of each partner, the Secretary of the internal relations will inform of the number of assistance that received each partner in health and how much box of help used each one, the formless secretary of the recording of the participation of each partner in the meetings and activities, the formless treasurer of the quantities which correspond to each partner by fines, the economic aids offered to the Community, etc.
For the Association works an accountant who is the person charged to make accountancy, the tax declarations and other obligations, etc.
The company has also an administrator who is the accountant of the organization and has a person like administrative support.
Production and commercialization

Production and commercialisation

They currently work an average of 20 family workshops specialized in fabrics in weaving loom, cut hones Huamanga and retables of them.
The coordinator of the production is the person charged to distribute the orders, in agreement with the design of each craftsman, if an order exceeds the capacity of the craftsman one distributes between all the other craftsmen, the orders have a limiting date of delivery.
Production carried out in the workshop of each craftsman. The reception carried out the Saturdays afternoon; three members of the group undertake to make qualitative control.
The payments are carried out once the accepted products, the Secretary of the Economy takes care of the small payments, while those of a greater value are done by cheque.
La Asociación Rasuwillka, además de la comercialización, ha implementado algunos servicios en beneficios de sus asociados, los cuales son:
Seguro interno de salud.- Aparte de un pequeño botiquín con medicinas básicas que se suministra a los socios y sus familiares en forma gratuita, la asociación tiene un sistema de apoyo en salud para sus socios y familiares. Los socios o familiares que sufren enfermedades o accidentes, recurren a la atención hospitalaria y los gastos de atención médica y medicinas son reembolsados por la asociación. Los gastos son cubierto por un fondo especial limitado que se destina cada año, el fondo es limitado, acumulable e incluso puede utilizarse lo correspondiente a años posteriores en caso de una enfermedad costosa.

Services and benefits that receive the partners

Rasuwillka Association, in addition to marketing, implemented some services profiting to its associates, which are:
Insurance interns health. - Independently of a small box of help with basic medicines which is provided to the partners and to his/her parents in a free way, association has a system of support in health for its partners and parents. The partners or the parents who suffer from diseases or accidents, have like resort the hospital attention and the expenses of medical attention and medicines are refunded by association. The expenses are covered by funds special limited which is intended each year, the funds are limited, commutable and even can be used year by posterior years in the event of expensive disease.
Rotators Funds. - These is funds special that it is used to give of the loans to the partners without interest for a limited time. The maximum quantity is of 500 dollars and the time limits of refunding are 5 months.
In the event of no achievement one charges rather high interest moratorium and the partner cannot recently request another loan.
Improvement of workshops. - In several occasions Association supported its partners with new equipment and tools, like weaving looms, of the accessories of replacement, work tables, etc for each one of its partners.
Utilities. - utilities produced by the company during the year, 50% are distributed in the following way: 30% according to the capital of each partner, 40% according to the production brought by each partner and 30% according to the behaviour of the partners in Association (assistance to meetings, participation of the activities, achievement of its orders, behaviour in the meetings, etc).
Other benefit. - Occasionally the tests receive other benefit like the baskets of Christmas, participation of the pastoral walks, etc.

Activities and communal projection

Rasuwillka Association was always characterized by the realization with many activities for the benefit of its partners and the Community in general.
Support with education. - Association supported several educational centres, between them at the schools of High Districts and the Kindergarten of High Districts. Initially, the assistance with construction and the ceiling of a classroom and kindergarten made gift of some mechanical plays, of the useful accessories to study, construction of wall, carries principal, etc.
In 1993 Association organized a school contest of drawing and painting between the educational centres of the neighbourhoods of the town of Ayacucho by granting money prices to the gaining children.
In year 2001 we repeated this experiment but only in the educational centre of the Community of Huascahura with very flattering results.
Football and other sports. - One of the activities the most recalled was that one carried out the day of the mother in 1992 when the players came from football shipibas of the Indigenous Community of San Francisco d’ Yarinacochas de Pucallpa and they faced the team of the University of Huamanga with their typical clothing and expose.
Another was the championship of Volley in 1993 between the dining rooms popular locality of Huamanga and its neighbourhoods, by granting prices such as pots and kitchen utensils to gaining.
Support with childhood. - Association carries out also other activities for the benefit of the childhood of the marginal districts. During many years the recipients were the children of High Districts where they were carried out chocolatadas, for Christmas, for a sporting average 500, 600 children and plays with prices in cash.
The last year, this experiment A was transferred to the Community from Huascahura because there are children much poorer than in the city.
Other social activities. - In addition to before, Association carries out activities of fraternity for the day of the Mother, for the birthday of association on October 12 and a family meeting for Christmas where all the tests receive baskets of Christmas such as food of first need and a flattery who changes each year, can be a play plates, a set of pots, one will bath-tubs and boxes, etc.