While BeadforLife is primarily working to eradicate extreme poverty in Uganda it is important that we also keep in mind the plight of the poor in America. The recession has hit the poor in America hard. Even in the best of times, the 20 to 30 percent of the population that struggle to pay their [...]
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As the BeadParty Program Manager, I like to encourage our hosts and their guests to write to the Beaders in Uganda as a way to join the circle of caring and generosity between continents. These notes are then hand-carried from the North American office to the Ugandan office where they are shared with the Beaders. [...]
At BeadforLife we believe strongly in the value of program evaluation. It helps us share what we are doing with the world, but just as important (and perhaps more so) it helps us know what is and isn’t working, and to make adjustments as we go. We just got the final evaluation from our second [...]
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Torkin Wakefield & Jennifer Rowell-Gastard Paris, France June 26-28, 2009 BeadforLife’s Paris debut was at the Solidays music festival, hosted by Solidarité SIDA, a France-based HIV/AIDS non-profit. The venue was the perfect fit for the BeadforLife mission and the paper beads were a big hit causing jaws to drop and lots of ooh la la! [...]
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Are you a fan of BeadforLife on Facebook? Are you BFL’s biggest fan? Have you hosted or attended numerous BeadParties but want to do more? Well now is your chance to prove just how big of a fan you really are by participating in our BeadforLife #1 Fan Facebook contest! Here’s what to do: [...]
One contributing factor in inspiring me to volunteer for BeadforLife was Jeffrey Sachs’ book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. It is the clearest, most readable, and most hopeful of any economics book I have ever read. Sachs, one of the world’s leading economists, describes his goal to end extreme poverty by [...]
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