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About BeadforLife
Finance & Oversight

Accomplishments
Leadership

Evaluation

How We Began

Annual Report

Environmental Policy

Newsletter: The Bead

The BeadforLife CD

The BeadforLife DVD

Friends and Partners

 

 

 

Handmade Beads

jewelry, bead jewelry, paper beads

BeadforLife is proud to have touched the lives of so many people, assisting them in their journey out of poverty.

To date we have:

  • Launched BeadforLife in Sept. 2004
  • Trained 750 beaders to make beads and earn regular income
  • Seeded bead making as a Ugandan cottage industry
  • Developed high quality bead products and jewelry bags
  • Worked with volunteers to host over 6,500 BeadParties
  • Finished Friendship Village with 132 homes, 2 wells and abundant gardens
  • Launched Vocational Education Program for Impoverished Youth
  • Sponsored bi-annual leadership camps for vocational education students
  • Produced original music CD, From the Heart of BeadforLife
  • Been featured in top media including NBC, O magazine, Today Show and Family Circle
  • Developed grant program to fund other organizations working in poverty eradication
  • Graduated 357 members from BeadforLife program into self-sufficiency
  • Launched BeadforLife Europe in April 2009

Here are the number of people impacted by BeadforLife's work over the past few years.

Number of People Affected by BeadforLife Programs in Uganda

 

Direct Affect via BeadforLife Members, April 2009-March 2010

BeadforLife beaders & tailors

390

People hired by beaders

540

Total people supported by bead-making

2,880

Alumni paying mortgages in beads

130

Women gathering shea nuts

453

Total people supported by Shea Project

3,171

Students in primary and secondary schools supported by BeadforLife

26

Students in vocational training schools supported by BeadforLife

180

 

 

Impact of Programs in North America and Beyond
April 2009-March 2010

# of BeadParties held

2,853

# of items sold online at www.beadforlife.org

54,019

# of people who shopped at our Boulder office store, and orders placed over the phone

2,378

# of Community Partners

26

# of Retail Partners

64

# of people reached through BeadParties

175,000

# of people reached through Community Partners

28,000

# of people subscribed to our e-newsletter The Bead

36,000

  Many more people have been affected through our Grants Program - click here