Sustainability

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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Eva Auma on September 1st, 2009

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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Erika Nyhus on August 25th, 2009

 
From purchasing groceries to cars our dollars make a difference in the world. But it is often difficult to determine how socially and environmentally responsible companies are. I have tried to search the internet for the social and environmental practices of my favorite brands and have often come up with conflicting information.
Ellis Jones boils this [...]

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