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BeadforLife Staff on October 18th, 2011

Since the beginning of the year, the Uganda currency has been falling against the dollar.  When I moved to Uganda in 2008, you could get about 1600 shillings per dollar. Now the rate is around 2900.  Imagine if two years ago you spent $5.50 for a sandwich and today it cost you $10 – that [...]

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BeadforLife Staff on October 14th, 2011

You may be aware that the women of the BeadforLife’s Shea Project have suffered many hardships. For 20 years, they were terrorized by the  Lord’s Resistance Army, a band of rebels who abducted children to fight as  soldiers or act as concubines to their leaders. The 760 women in this project  and their families were forced [...]

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BeadforLife Staff on June 17th, 2010

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 [...]

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Patty Manwaring on January 27th, 2010

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 [...]

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