The group making this paper are now completely independent from the Project and have
two managers who work directly on the production of the cards and also market them.
They are assisted by up to twenty assistants employed on a casual basis. A local artist
is contracted when needed to produce new designs. The paper is made by two groups,
totalling 107 people, mostly women, and the raffia wallets are made by up to 90 men.
All the above people have benefited financially from the income generated from the
paper making, enabling them to pay towards schooling and medicine in an area where the
population lives mainly by subsistence agriculture. This enhancement of rural
livelihoods means the villagers have less need to encroach into forest land for farming
and other destructive activities.