Child Poverty
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 [...]
On the morning of 30 October 2010, Aine Margaret, a BeadforLife, Unity group member, was going home after her regular Sunday church service; she did not take her usual route. As she passed by one of the many garbage dumps, a dog started to bark and growl at her, she wondered if the dog had [...]
The Vocational Education Training program (VET) students sponsored by BeadforLife visited Kawempe slum, where they counseled people living with HIV/AIDS and sought opportunities to give back. They met a ten year old boy whose name was Dan; at first sight they thought he looked sickly and forlorn. The students, who were deeply touched by his [...]
I am called Nuru Nabbumba Kisitu, 23 years old and I come from a humble background. I am the first born in the family of six children and I am openly living with HIV. My life hasn’t been a smooth journey life one can imagine. Throughout my childhood I experienced infidelity and domestic violence at [...]
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An inspiring letter from BeadforLife supporter Geri Strzelecki, Reston, VA: Dear Patty: I wanted to share with you my experience with the BeadforLife Curriculum. First, I would like to tell you that our company (Altum) participates in a program called Smart Sacks. We partner with an organization that provides a sack filled with food to [...]
Two of the services we offer in our BeadforLife health program are family planning and deworming for the entire family. Currently the average woman in Uganda will bear at least 7 children, many of whom will die in infancy. This repeated child bearing often saps the health of the mother and impoverishes the family who [...]
Re-posted w/ permission: ONE 4/28/10 Dear ONE Member, We’ve recently returned from trips to Senegal, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya and South Africa, where we saw first-hand the role African mothers play in the health and education of their children. In honor of Mother’s Day on May 9, we’re coming together again to support “Six-Word Memoirs” on [...]
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 [...]
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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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It is essential that we examine and compare the patterns of extreme poverty on all levels, whether it is local or global, if we are to understand its complexity and gain the means to eradicate it. As they say, with knowledge comes power! Here’s a glimpse… Microcosm: Children in Colorado are plummeting beneath the poverty [...]
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