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BeadforLife Community Partners are a mobile force of intensive, educated and inspired community volunteers throughout North America. Their purpose is to expand our BeadCircle through education, outreach events, and bead sales. Community Partners are great supporters of BeadforLife and have the time, energy and passion to devote to our organization in an ongoing way. Some [...]
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Many a college philosophy class will debate over whether or not helping others can be done selflessly. Does happiness come from making other people happy? Studies actually show that experiencing compassion, benevolence, and kindness is one of the best ways to overcome stress (Stephen Post, Ph.D, Case Western Reserve University). I’ve also read that generosity [...]
2011 was a tough year. Tough in Uganda where inflation reached 19%, putting items like sugar out of reach for many families, and tough in America where unemployment soared and many people experienced a shrinking standard of living. As our 2011 holiday initiative, BeadforLife reached out to women in America who are struggling to get [...]
By BeadforLife Volunteer, Karen McKenna Nayiwemula Edith used to dig in other people’s gardens to make enough money to send one of her five children to school. She now owns two acres of land in a village in eastern Uganda where she plants maize and rice. The profit from these crops, along with income from [...]