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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 [...]
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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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 [...]
At BeadforLife we love to tell you the stories of our members but today we want to share with you a story of one of our colleagues, Joseph. Joseph works at BeadforLife’s Kampala office making Shea Butter Soap. Some of us at BeadforLife in Boulder have had the pleasure of meeting this remarkable young man [...]
An update from BeadforLife’s Ugandan staff on an extraordinary young man named, Senfuku Mohamed. Mohamed is a soft spoken young man who was raised by an older sister in Naguru, a slum in the out skirts of Kampala. After high school he did not have the means to further his education as his sister had to [...]
Sometimes we possess the ability to touch people’s lives and hearts at the most unexpected times and places. We received an email from Kathleen, a woman who gave BeadforLife’s Katogo Bracelets to cancer survivors. The survivors connection to each other and the Ugandan beaders of BeadforLife inspired Kathleen to share this beautiful moment with us and, it’s stories like this, that inspire all [...]
Today’s article by Lester R. Brown in Foreign Policy about the rising prices of food and, its impact on the world’s poorest people, caught our attention and we want to share it with you… In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between [...]
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