Late arrival to this thread. One of my projects involve working with local female co-operatives in Nepal and help them sell their hand made products around the world. Paypal doesn't operate here, merchant services for international cards are impossible to get. They don't understand technology in any way and there is a lot of hand holding. The site is https://www.pasatrade.com We make no money off of this, I operate i…
It sounds nice that you do not take a profit from it but the reality is that your life will change and one day you won't have time for a project that makes no money/operates at loss. Those women will start to rely more and more on the income from your website and this would be really unfortunate if one day this revenue totally stops because it was just a volunteer project for you. The more sustainable it is for you, the safer it is for them.