Sustainability

In our never ending commitment to becoming more sustainable, the BeadforLife environmental committee attended a “greening your office” session last Friday.  The Business Leaders in Action for Sustainability Today or BLAST! is an entity created by the folks at Amadeus Consulting, an amazing tech consulting group who offers a free presentation to other businesses and [...]

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It was a bright Friday morning; everybody seemed overwhelmed by the activities going on in inventory as we prepared for our very first sea shipment in a huge container that would carry our beads and shea butter to America. Despite the humming and singing of gospel music that goes on in inventory, everyone seemed busy [...]

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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 home [...]

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Laura Medice Edlin on June 22nd, 2010

BeadforLife is committed to reducing our environmental footprint. We have created an environmental policy to show the steps that we are taking to reduce, reuse and recycle.
This month in Boulder, Colorado the home of our North American office we are participating in Bike to Work Day!  Bike to Work Day celebrates commuters getting out of [...]

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Devin Hibbard on April 16th, 2010

One of the hardest issues we confront has to do not with poor nutrition, lack of education or ill health.  The hardest issue is dealing with people who have a dependency mindset.
For much of the past 20 years, Uganda has received a huge amount of foreign assistance - in some years it made up almost [...]

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Patty Manwaring on March 22nd, 2010

Published: March 14, 2010
Reprinted from: http://bit.ly/czAptV

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Maybe the most common question I get from readers is: What can I do?
They’ve read about malaria, or mass rape, or AIDS orphans, and they want to make a difference. Should they call the White House? Write a check? Howl in hopeless despair?
There’s [...]

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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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