Today is Halloween and what is more endearing than the image of cute little children frolicking from door-to-door dressed as ladybugs, ghosts, miniature comic book characters and fairies? The goodie bags full of candy seems harmless enough, apart from the inevitable exhaustion parents may experience due to sugar-infused children. However, what may be just chocolaty treats [...]
This is a hip hop song written by a young man, Short Richard Bills, who has started a paper selling business to supply paper to the BeadforLife Beaders. Short Richard’s story is an example of how one person helped create the paper bead industry in Uganda. Richard will now be able to lift [...]
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I wasn’t exactly looking for something like BeadforLife when I stumbled upon it my sophomore year of college. “I want to do something with Africa,” I told professor McLean that day in her office. As a young aspiring journalist turned anthropologist, I knew I wanted to make a difference. Never in 100 years did I [...]
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In 2005 an estimated 40,000 children were fighting to survive in the midst of Uganda’s 20-year civil war. Many children escaped death every night by walking from rural villages into the town of Gulu and other urban centers for safety. Upon hearing this story, in 2005, two Canadians began walking every night to downtown Toronto [...]
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It is essential that we examine and compare the patterns of extreme poverty on all levels, whether it is local or global, if we are to understand its complexity and gain the means to eradicate it. As they say, with knowledge comes power! Here’s a glimpse… Microcosm: Children in Colorado are plummeting beneath the poverty [...]
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