Beaders

Phoebe Hedwig - Uganda Staff on January 4th, 2010

 
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 [...]

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Patty Manwaring on October 6th, 2009

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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Leah Colby on July 21st, 2009

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.  [...]

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Devin Hibbard on July 16th, 2009

At BeadforLife we believe strongly in the value of program evaluation. It helps us share what we are doing with the world, but just as important (and perhaps more so) it helps us know what is and isn’t working, and to make adjustments as we go. We just got the final evaluation from our second [...]

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Ashley Rein on June 16th, 2009

The other day I asked our deputy director in the Uganda office, Maggie, for some stories that I would be able to share in our studio; stories that will give us a better sense of where the Beaders are coming from and that could bring us to a closer understanding of their situation.  She shared [...]

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