Social Change
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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“The world’s worst forgotten humanitarian crisis” according to former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Jan Egeland, was northern Uganda. Mr. Egeland made this remark in 2006 and while northern Uganda “is dramatically different than it was in 2006,” the effects of Joseph Kony’s reign of terror can be felt when you talk to many of the members of BeadforLife’s Shea Project. Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army [...]
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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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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 [...]
As most of our BeadCircle knows, here at BeadforLife, BeadParties are a huge part of how we bring our beautiful, handmade jewelry to the global market, and help Ugandan women lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Though we started on the small scale, we are now hosting parties across the nation and around the globe. [...]
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In the fall of 2010, Eve Tesorio, Exhibit and Events Manager at the Montgallet Cultural and Community Center in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, was contemplating her next project in honor of International Women’s Day. Eve recalled hearing about a non-profit organization that opened an office in the South of France and was doing great [...]
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by BeadforLife Fulfillment Assistant, Margaret Grondorf When people around the world unite together and celebrate World Fair Trade Day on May 14, many of us may still be unaware of how important and powerful this movement is. While not only being an effective and efficient response to poverty, fair trade contributes to a fair and [...]
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1 percent: A matter of life and death http://one.org/blog/2011/03/04/1-percent-a-matter-of-life-and-death/ Here’s a question that 63 percent of Americans can’t answer: How much of our government spending goes toward foreign aid? The answer: less than 1 percent. According to a recent poll, Americans believe that the government spends more on defense and foreign aid than it does on [...]
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I’ve come to the Katanga slums in Kampala with BeadforLife’s Membership Director, Irene, to interview potential beaders. This was my first time in a slum and I was afraid to take a step for fear of walking in feces or a puddle of urine. I was immediately overwhelmed by the stench wafting from every direction. [...]
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The average Ugandan woman “produces” on average 7 children, this means that Uganda has the 2nd highest growth rate in the world. Research shows that a woman is more likely to escape poverty if she has fewer children but the population in Uganda is doubling approximately every twenty years. Half of Ugandans alive today are under [...]
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