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The support to the daily activities must pass, in AMKA vision, also through the incentive to the development of productive activities that can supply necessary the economic resources to the increase of the single one, of its familiar nucleus and the entire social context in which he it lives. For this the Association, beyond favoring diffusing of supported productive activities through the microcredit program, takes part directly through a program of support to local the handicraft activities whose produced they are in commerce in more than 350 stores all over Italy.
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The program second becomes part in the plan of transformation of the economic substrate the principles of the fair trade. Draft to characterize and to feed activities that make of the handicraft the own source of maintenance. Main beneficiaries working will be re-united in cooperatives that make of the sharing of the job and the revenues just the principle hinge.

The destined bottom to the program is used in order to support the activities of connection with the partner European necessary to the definition and conclusion of the agreements of collaboration and distribution of the products. The program previews activity of analysis of the international principles that regulate the system of the loyal commerce and quo and, the verification of the existence of requirement trades them of base of said production, the adaptation to such principles, the production on wide scale of the products.

It turns out to you will be periodically collected in one publication distributed to international level in order to support the development and the spread of this shape of alternative commerce. The activities will come supervisionate jointly from the local teams and that European.

The groups of reference are: the cooperatives of craftsmen (Kalukuluku, Mawazo, Uhuru Malachite) that they operate in the Commune Ruashi, situated in the zone the northeast of the city of Lubumbashi, and the communal administration of the same city. The two subjects are join to you from the fact to be in great difficulty in carrying out the own daily activity because of the conditions of general indigence.

The number of upgrades them beneficiaries of the effects of the plan is of approximately 250 persons been involved directly in how many members of the cooperatives of craftsmen and the relative families, of approximately 1.200 persons interested in indirect way from the effects of the plan because residents in the quarter interested from the activities of the cooperatives.

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