Africa
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 of [...]
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Check out this great video created by Nam Kiwanuka a great friend of BeadforLife.
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Giggles and laughter can be heard in the BeadforLife compound along with the sounds of women repeating phrases in English. A class of 20 women is sitting outside under a tent canopy with their teacher Irene. They are excited because they are doing something very important; they are learning English with the hope of bettering [...]
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You have overcome! “Banange kino siki kiriza!” “My dears I can not believe this!” exclaims Constance Nakaliri who has been waiting to get a house for the past one year, really her entire life.
Constance is a beader with the Kakwanzi group. She graduated last June before she could build a house because she was too [...]
by Torkin Wakefield
“My jajja (grandmother) raised me and my brothers and sisters. And also some cousins and neighborhood orphans. She said that although she could not send us all to school but for a few years she was glad that she had enough money for soap to be clean and paraffin to light the lantern.” [...]
This is a hip hop song written by a young man, Short Richard Bills, who has started a paper selling business to supply paper to the BeadforLife Beaders.
Short Richard’s story is an example of how one person helped create the paper bead industry in Uganda. Richard will now be able to lift his family out [...]
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I wasn’t exactly looking for something like BeadforLife when I stumbled upon it my sophomore year of college. “I want to do something with Africa,” I told professor McLean that day in her office. As a young aspiring journalist turned anthropologist, I knew I wanted to make a difference. Never in 100 years did I [...]
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In 2005 an estimated 40,000 children were fighting to survive in the midst of Uganda’s 20-year civil war. Many children escaped death every night by walking from rural villages into the town of Gulu and other urban centers for safety.
Upon hearing this story, in 2005, two Canadians began walking every night to downtown Toronto to [...]
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In BeadforLife’s work in Uganda we recognize the immensely important role that women play in the developing world’s stabilization. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide describes the plight of women in developing countries as the most important moral and economic issue facing the world today.Through their journalistic research, the husband and [...]
When Jennifer joined BeadforLife in 2007 she was a widow struggling to raise seven children using her merger income from selling cassava.
She didn’t earn enough to pay her children’s school fees hence some dropped out of school at quite an early age.
Joining BeadforLife gave Jennifer an opportunity to earn some money from the bead sales to meet her daily [...]
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