Mexican artisans exchange typical crafts for food

In order to face the COVID-19 pandemic, the Otomi community asks for solidarity of the population, exchanging typical crafts for food, general cleaning equipment and other products.

Indigenous Otomi Maricela Perez, wears a face shield reading 'We stop this virus together' as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, while waiting for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.

Indigenous Otomi women Mariana Gonzalez (R) and Maricela Perez wait for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.

A woman wearing a face mask bartered for goods to Otomi indigenous women in Mexico City.

Mariana Gonzalez (L) and Maricela Perez, members of indigenous Otomi ethnic group wear a face shield as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, while bartering crafts for goods in Mexico City.

Handmade dolls of the Otomi ethnic community.

A customer holds a handmade doll of the Otomi ethnic community in Mexico City.

Mariana Gonzalez of the indigenous Otomi ethnic group wearing a protective mask shows the different dolls to a woman who arrived with merchandises to change for crafts in Mexico City.

ndigenous Otomi Maricela Perez waits for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.

Indigenous Otomi women Mariana Gonzalez (R) and Maricela Perez waits for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.