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By Irene Namaganda, Membership Coordinator, BeadforLife As the person responsible for BeadforLife’s membership recruitment process in Uganda I have preconceived ideas of who would be a good fit in our program. I would not, for example, be looking at women carrying a nice hand bag, wearing a pretty dress or living in a fancy house. My eye is trained [...]
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We love hearing stories from BeadParty hosts and recently we spoke with Elaine Chagnon of Granby, Connecticut. Elaine was so inspired by BeadforLife that she now makes BeadforLife part of her yearly tradition and her colleagues couldn’t be happier… Four years ago, a friend from church brought in some beautiful paper beads to sell around Mothers’ Day. [...]
Just ask the inspiring and amazing students at Foothills Elementary School in Colorado who are working with BeadforLife to do just that! The library at Foothills Elementary School in Northwest Colorado Springs is usually a place where students and adults must maintain an “indoor voice” in reverence for the thousands of books on the shelves, and the busy [...]
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You may remember the July 29th blog entry where you saw and read about the Ugandan team packing a sea container full of our beads, Shea Butter and Soap. After two and a half months in transit, the container finally arrived in the US! It cleared customs in Huston, where Damco (our shipping company) arranged [...]
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Today’s the last day to register for the November elections, at least here in Boulder at the BeadforLife offices. Check to make sure you’re registered. Your voice matters. Here’s a post from our advocacy partners over at the One Campaign. They’re a non-partisan group working on poverty eradication. We like what they’re doing, and we [...]
I have been volunteering with BeadforLife for about a year. Through my volunteer work, I have been fortunate to contribute to two of BeadforLife’s goals—the sale of beads to support sustainable programs in Uganda and the education of people in the U.S. about extreme poverty. I first volunteered for BeadforLife during the national I Volunteer [...]
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In our never ending commitment to becoming more sustainable, the BeadforLife environmental committee attended a “greening your office” session last Friday. The Business Leaders in Action for Sustainability Today or BLAST! is an entity created by the folks at Amadeus Consulting, an amazing tech consulting group who offers a free presentation to other businesses and [...]