Healthcare
Sometimes the senseless loss in Uganda threatens to engulf me. Last week, I stopped to give Joseph, a member of our shea soap team, a ride home from work. He had been speaking to an older man, and he told me this was his father. Then slowly as we drove home through a terrible traffic [...]
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 [...]
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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While BeadforLife is primarily working to eradicate extreme poverty in Uganda it is important that we also keep in mind the plight of the poor in America. The recession has hit the poor in America hard. Even in the best of times, the 20 to 30 percent of the population that struggle to pay their [...]
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