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This Planet-craft.com website is an a slightly odd combination of business and hobby. As it is a 'part-time' supplement to our other jobs, it provides us not only with a little extra income, but other opportunities too. It provides us with different focus when we go travelling and it provides us with an opportunity to support artisans with whom we work, through trade. We also have begun to donate a part of the monthly profits to two projects.
1. The Flying Angels Community School
The first is a school in Zambia - the Flying Angels Community School in Lusaka. Girls from the school at which I work visited the school in the summer of 2007 and links are being developed (CLICK here for link). The Flying Angels school is always in need of funds as it doesn't recieve government funding. Our donation is about £25 a month which helps to pay and train the teachers at the school (monthly teacher's salary is about £35). It's not a lot but it goes a long way. The school is yet to develop it's own website but here's a link to Jess Bokhout's PDF file that gives some more background on the school (CLICK here).
  
   Photos NLCS Zambia visit 2007.
2. Morro dos Prazeres Favela (P.R.O.A.)
We also have chosen to support a small project in the favela Morro dos Prazeres community of Rio, in Brazil. They focus on helping teenagers with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases but also on wider social and community bonds in the favela. The association, led by Cris, has also developed a strategy to help tourism to Rio benefit the community. Here are some photos showing classes, community tidy-up and other events led by the project.
  
  
  photos from Cris.
These are great projects for us to support - they're small(ish), really help people in modest, honest and meaningful ways and all the money goes direct to them - LCC Trans-Sending Ltd, our money transfer agents, have even kindly waived the transfer fee to Brazil.
Here are some more relevant websites:
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