WINTHROP – Products woven by Mayan women in Guatemala are awesome, according to Marie Pettengill, a Winthrop woman who chairs the Missions Board at the Winthrop Congregational Church. The products will be on display and available for purchase at the church’s annual summer fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, July 31, at the church, 10 Bowdoin St.

San Martin table runners will be available as well as several types of wallets, purses and tote bags. Prices range from $10 to $25.

The Mayan women who weave the items on their looms have formed MayaWorks, an organization whose primary objective is to market the products.

The profits are used to improve the lives of the Guatemalan women and their families. It has brought electricity to one tiny, remote town, it provided scholarships to 126 young Mayan girls and school supplies for many others.

The funds are also used to help the Mayan women gain better business and marketing skills.

The MayaWorks consortium, born in 1990, recognized the value of building on the Mayan women’s traditional weaving skills to build nonprofit and commercial venues for marketing products of their own labor. Three-fourths of every dollar generated goes directly to MayaWorks projects.

Locally, it gives Winthrop Congregational Church members an opportunity to feel connected to the group of women who are working to improve living conditions for themselves, their families and their communities.

The products have been sold at summer fairs and Christmas fairs at the church since 2002. The MayaWorks booth will be stocked with a variety of items.