Recently BeadforLife has had the opportunity to collaborate with AVON, selling blue, red, and earth tone bangle bracelets through their catalog. We did this in order to create a larger demand for our Beaders to make jewelry and to broaden our reach to other women throughout the country. Our collaboration with AVON allowed us to purchase thousands more bangle bracelets from our Beaders, thereby allowing us to expand our reach to hundreds of additional impoverished Ugandans.
BeadforLife featured in AVON catalog!
BeadforLife currently works with retail companies including fair trade and museum stores. Each company sets the sales price in order to cover their costs. Regardless of the partnership and how we sell and distribute the jewelry our Beaders are making the same amount for the bangles that they create. By expanding the market and demand for beads, the Beaders have the opportunity to earn more income due to the increased volume. Money in their hands will go directly into feeding their families, getting needed medical care, paying for school fees, and saving to build a home and start a business. In addition, the AVON representatives are also making a living from their work; so in a way, each bracelet purchased is not only supporting a woman in Uganda, but also a woman in America as well.
We feel that AVON’s view on women’s empowerment align with ours and is a good fit. With the inclusion of our website address in AVON’s catalog, we are reaching thousands of women who would otherwise never have known about BeadforLife and our work. Many new friends from AVON are now joining us in our grassroots movement to eradicate poverty by hosting BeadParties, shopping at our web store, and telling the stories of our Beaders. Additionally, the sales of our bangle bracelets also support AVON’s efforts to help women through their philanthropic contributions of over $725 million in fifty countries through their Foundation for Women and their Make a Difference Campaign.
We are excited about our partnership with AVON and hope you are too. We welcome the many new BeadCircle members that just joined us after learning about BeadforLife in their AVON catalog!
As always we’d love to hear from you. Please take a moment and share your thoughts about this partnership and any great ideas you have for additional opportunities for BeadforLife.
Tags: Africa, BeadCircle, beaded jewelry, BeadforLife, Empowering Women, paper jewelry, Poverty Eradication, Uganda, Women Making A Difference
I am an Avon Independent Representative and I would like to say thank you for all the beautiful beads. I love the awesome colors. Very unique and so creative.
I have a co-worker who mother runs a little shop and she is going to send the bead site to her mom so her mom can display and offer the beads to her customers.
I am sure she will be contacting BeadforLife real soon.
Thank You and all the best to you
Pamela Luckey
To all the wonderful women that make these bracelets,
I am an Avon Independent Rep. and I LOVE them along with a few customers of mine! Thank you for introducing this unique paper jewelery to the rest of the world!
Tracy Raymond…..:)
Hi Brenda -
We primarily sell all of our jewelry direct to our customers, we are currently only selling our BeadforLife bangle bracelet through Avon’s campaign #13.
Thanks for your support!
I am interest in selling the beads for life necklaces as an avon representative. I would love to sell them in future avon campaigns.