SUPPORT ANOU · 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT
100% of your donation goes to initiatives run by the artisan community itself — and with every donation, we’ll show you exactly where your money went, dollar by dollar, as it’s spent.
The Anou Language Institute
Volunteer tutors worldwide, plus in-person camps — so artisans can host customers and run their own sales, no middlemen needed.
Prison craft training
Master weavers teach traditional craft at Marrakesh Prison, with participants earning to support their families — now expanding to Casablanca and Fes.
Equipment Access Program
Interest-free loans for smartphones, laptops, and tools that let artisans photograph, sell, and grow independently.
Craft research
Weaver-led documentation of symbols, techniques, and oral histories — published pay-what-you-can, within anyone’s reach.
NEW · FUNDING CRAFT RESEARCH
The Anou Foundation funds research led with — and owned by — artisans: documenting symbols, techniques, and oral histories before they’re lost, and publishing them pay-what-you-can so a small contribution puts them in anyone’s hands.
See an example: An Incomplete Taxonomy of Amazigh Symbols — over 100 symbols and their meanings, recorded by the women weavers of Anou. Every download funds the next study.
EXPLORE THE TAXONOMY →“I never got the opportunity to go to school. But I always wanted to learn. The Institute is the opportunity I was waiting for!”
Meriem, weaver at Cooperative Timit — on the Anou Language Institute
