Paper Jewelry
Andrew and Jillian met while Andrew was coaching a soccer camp at Jillian’s church. They had heard about each other for years, but hadn’t actually met until Andrew stopped by Jillian’s office at the end of the summer two years ago. That visit sparked six months of long distance communication, multiple [...]
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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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(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 husband [...]
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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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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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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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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 many [...]
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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 to [...]
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