Poverty Eradication

BeadforLife Staff on November 28th, 2011

BeadforLife is excited to share stories of three amazing women from our newest group of bead makers, Favor.  These women are changing their lives and providing food, schooling and hope for their children.  We are so inspired by them and know you will be to. Meet Rosette: Rosette is a 34 year old widowed mother of 6 children whose ages [...]

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BeadforLife Staff on November 3rd, 2011

According to United Nations the 7 billionth person was born this week. CNN recently posted an article entitled: How women defused population bomb.  In his article, Fred Pearce talks about how “women today are having half as many children as their mothers and grandmothers. The global average is now down to 2.5 children per woman, [...]

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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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Devin Hibbard on October 11th, 2011

Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs died last week, and although I’m not a Mac user or part of the cult of Apple, I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact he had on the world.  What made Jobs a visionary is not that he created functionality – in fact, there were lots of gadgets that [...]

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BeadforLife Staff on April 25th, 2011

Author, Dr. Paul Polak provides an intersting perspective on poverty’s impact on the environment.  One of BeadforLife’s advisory board members, Dr. Polak, is the founder of Colorado-based non-profit International Development enterprises(IDE).  IDE is dedicated to developing practical solutions that attack poverty at its roots.  Dr. Polak is also the author of the book, Out of Poverty:  http://amzn.to/g7seBB. I believe that [...]

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