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This Planet-Craft business is a slightly odd combination of business and hobby. As a supplement to real jobs, it provides 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 is a school in Zambia - the Flying Angels Community School in Lusaka. Girls from the school at which I work visit the school in the summer and our fourth visit is being planned for 2010. Like all community schools in Zambia, the Flying Angels school is always in need of funds as it doesn't recieve government funding. This summer, 2009, I gave Planet-Craft money to the school to pay for windows and doors in the new staff room for the senior school which should allow the staff to move out of the back of a classroom and to store resources properly. Information in the Senior School section of my school (NLCS) website under 'Lusaka Project' - (CLICK here).
Photos NLCS Zambia visit 2009
These kids are in the clinic that is based in the school.
This lot are a crazy bunch who hang around outside the school.
This is in the assembly hall that the NLCS community has funded.
Another cute kid at the school clinic.
Girls in the senoir school reading Geography textbooks we took out.
Two of our students with Grade 9 class - big!
Jasmine and her new friend.
Michael, the Geography teacher - NLCS funds training for the teachers.
This is Jacqui 'in' the new staff room that Planet-craft donations are helping to finish.
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Cooking lunch at the senior school.
The school bell.
The primary school hall.
Selina having a ball.
The senior school 'staff room' - prsently in the back of a classroom.
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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