Sustainability
The BeadforLife team in Iganga, Uganda has been hard at work helping our members prepare to start sustainable, agricultural business projects by the next crop cycle in April. Over the last few months, all of our members took part in entrepreneurial training activities such as visiting model farms and attending agricultural seminars. They will soon [...]
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BeadforLife has some BIG plans for the future. Our Board of Directors just authorized a significant scale up of activities in Uganda over the next 5 years with some projects starting as soon as July. Judith Butagira-Tema, our Deputy Director from Uganda, was in Boulder this week to help brainstorm ideas, look at the best [...]
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 [...]
Two years ago Suubi and Sanyu groups were enrolled into the BeadforLife program, their faces wore a heaviness that could only be interpreted as sadness, worrying, hopelessness and anxiety. They came and rolled many million beads which became small and big businesses, houses, education for their children, independence, acceptance by the community and families. Recalls [...]
Recently, I was sent a stunning visual representation of just how large a continent Africa really is. Initially, I was struck by the creative artistry and such close approximation of how each country wholly nestles into Africa. After fully digesting the numbers, a new sense of understanding Africa’s larger problems began to emerge. The sheer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]