Bright, fun and colorful. There’s one thing that all of these words have in common: Pulseras! A Pulsera (which is Spanish for bracelet), is a colorful hand-woven bracelet that developed in Guatemala and Nicaragua, made from artists in these countries.

“I think that the Pulsera project is a good opportunity for the artist to be paid well for their hard work,”  sixth grader Adriana Aquino said about the Pulsera project. “I hope Clague will do more stuff like this to support more artists.”

The Pulsera project began in 2009, when a group of friends went exploring Nicaragua and found artists in Managua, weaving beautiful and unique  pulseras. 

 As the friends were heading back home, they came home with hands full of multiple, colorful, hand-woven, pulseras, and that’s how the Pulsera Project began. 

Since then, there were many student and teacher volunteers in more than 3,600 schools, who sold over 1,000,000 pulseras, and have earned more than $6,000,000 for this project! 

“I think the Pulsera project is a great way to experience different cultures,” seventh grader Nayul (Emma) Jung said. “It’s fun to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by making various kinds and colors of bracelets.”  

The Pulsera project is here to connect and educate everyone– artists, teachers, and students with these multi-color bracelets.

When a person wears a pulsera, they not only are  sharing  the voice of a Central American artist, but they are also standing up for opportunities, unity, and a more colorful world. 

Each individual Pulsera takes an hour or more to make, and has a tag of the artist’s name and photo to acknowledge the artist’s Pulsera. 

Students  can buy the Pulseras at the Main Entrance when they  come in for $7. The sale is from Oct. 2-17

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Yesui Zolboo

Spanish teacher Ms. Bares showing some examples of a few Pulseras.