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(Re-posted from The Huffington Post November 5th) Millions of us are actively engaging, volunteering, and serving as never before. And I find it amazing how often the lives we save include our own.Helping other people reach for a brighter day helped me not just survive, but soar, after staggering Ponzi losses. Three years ago, my [...]
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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 [...]
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Recently two of BeadforLife’s incredible Community Partners, Suzanne Bowman and Donna Theobold who live in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area invited all of their volunteers for an afternoon get together to have some fun and meet BeadforLife co-founder Torkin Wakefield. This group of volunteers help sell beads and tell the stories of our Ugandan partners who [...]
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At the BeadforLife Boulder office, I work in the Fulfillment department and serve on the Environmental Committee. Fulfillment manages all tasks related to the handling of our beautiful inventory. From filling web and BeadParty orders to managing incoming Uganda Shipments, I am privileged enough to work with the beads every day! Because there are so [...]
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“We both make our living by making and selling beautiful jewelry; it only makes sense that we work together to help support these amazing Beaders and their families.” -Fredda Goldfarb These were the words shared by Fredda Goldfarb of Alvin Goldfarb Jeweler on a phone call a few months ago. I was intrigued and moved [...]
We couldn’t do it without you! As an office full of women, we at the BeadforLife Boulder office would like to give a special shout out to the men who make our work possible through the daily pickup and delivery of our mail and packages. These guys consistently do more than the minimum job requirements [...]
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BeadforLife is participating in the first annual Fair Trade 2010 Calendar Photograph Contest! BeadforLife’s amazing photographer Charles Steinberg has entered two photos in the competition. We’ve been extremely blessed and grateful to have Charles capture and tell the BeadforLife story through his stunning photos. We think it would be great if his beautful photos were featured in [...]
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As the BeadParty Program Manager, I like to encourage our hosts and their guests to write to the Beaders in Uganda as a way to join the circle of caring and generosity between continents. These notes are then hand-carried from the North American office to the Ugandan office where they are shared with the Beaders. [...]
Torkin Wakefield & Jennifer Rowell-Gastard Paris, France June 26-28, 2009 BeadforLife’s Paris debut was at the Solidays music festival, hosted by Solidarité SIDA, a France-based HIV/AIDS non-profit. The venue was the perfect fit for the BeadforLife mission and the paper beads were a big hit causing jaws to drop and lots of ooh la la! [...]
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