BeadforLife has been working with Vermillion Design + Interactive of Boulder, Colorado to re-vision our branding and create a new look that embodies the heart and spirit of BeadforLife and the work we do. We love the end result and think you will too.
As always we would love to hear from the many voices of [...]
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Giggles and laughter can be heard in the BeadforLife compound along with the sounds of women repeating phrases in English. A class of 20 women is sitting outside under a tent canopy with their teacher Irene. They are excited because they are doing something very important; they are learning English with the hope of bettering [...]
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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 for [...]
In BeadforLife’s work in Uganda we recognize the immensely important role that women play in the developing world’s stabilization. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide describes the plight of women in developing countries as the most important moral and economic issue facing the world today.Through their journalistic research, the husband and [...]
Understanding Global Poverty: How Youth Can Make a Difference!
BeadforLife is proud to announce our curriculum “Understanding Global Poverty: How Youth Can Make a Difference“. This is a dynamic experiential service-learning curriculum for grades 6 through 12.
After a year of hard work, and a successful pilot reaching over 200 students in more than 10 classrooms, we [...]
Recently two of BeadforLife’s incredible Community Partners, Suzanne Bowman and Donna Theobold who live in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area invited all of their volunteers for an afternoon get together to have some fun and meet BeadforLife co-founder Torkin Wakefield. This group of volunteers help sell beads and tell the stories of our Ugandan partners who [...]
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When Jennifer joined BeadforLife in 2007 she was a widow struggling to raise seven children using her merger income from selling cassava.
She didn’t earn enough to pay her children’s school fees hence some dropped out of school at quite an early age.
Joining BeadforLife gave Jennifer an opportunity to earn some money from the bead sales to meet her daily [...]
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During my undergraduate education, I majored in history and minored in ethnic and racial studies. Through these disciplines I was consistently presented with, or made aware of, several discouraging situations: major world problems, institutionalized system flaws, inequalities, and the true complexities within some of these challenges. What compounded the weight of such issues were the seemingly [...]
It’s a beautiful Monday morning at BeadforLife in Uganda. The morning mist is just clearing and a soft breeze is rustling leaves in the flowering trees.
The BeadforLife week has begun with many warm greetings and much activity. There is a staff meeting in the front room, bundling, tagging, and counting of beads in the front [...]