Mettre en lumière des femmes d\'exception aux horizons différents, afin d\'inspirer et de donner de l\'espoir au reste de la Communauté des Femmes

On the 8th of January of 1988, Santiago and Andres Restrepo-Arismendi disappeared, they were 14 and 17 years old and until today their remains have not been found. In her documentary, María Fernanda Restrepo-Arismendi tells the story of her family’s unceasing fight to find out what happened to her two brothers when she was 10.

At Andean Collection we work with a great group of artisans in Ecuador who make our fantastic jewellery line. We work with men and women who have amazing skills and strength. Our business development and brand outreach manager, Maureen McMurray, had the great idea of celebrating the wonderful women we work with on our blog during the month of March. The whole Ecuador team took on some interviewing tasks and got their cameras out. Almost every day during the entire month we highlighted one woman whom we work with in the true TdF fashion.

The 27th of November 2011 marks 14 years of freedom, writes Fredy Alfaro Reyes, the director of the ninth LGBT film festival in Ecuador, which took place in four cities across the country this month. Up until the 27th of November 1997 homosexuality was considered a crime in Ecuador.