Women Making A Difference
Written by Vocational Education Training student – Tushabe Jane Tushabe Jane During my initiation into the BeadforLife program, I was encouraged to give back to the community. I thought perhaps I was expected to donate money to people less privileged than myself, I was pleasantly surprised on the 4th of August 2010 when I visited [...]
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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 [...]
The activities in the inventory department, at BeadforLife include: purchase of beautiful beads from members, storage, quality control and shipping. Bead jewelry is purchased from members and sold to meet existing demand. Necklaces, bracelets and earrings are bundled and tagged; differentiated by style and color, before shipment to Europe and North America. The proceeds from [...]
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“We want to sing you a song to bring you twins!” shouted the women, before engulfing BeadforLife staff member Phoebe Aringo in a tide of clapping, dancing, ululating bodies, showering prayers for two babies. As the coordinator of Suubi group, Phoebe has worked with these women for the past two years, acting as resource and [...]
BeadforLife Community Partner, Eva Witt Larsen, shares her experience of hosting BeadParties half a world away. Most people already know that BeadforLife’s mission and success can be directly attributed to our amazing network of volunteers and BeadParty hosts, but some may be unfamiliar with the work our Community Partners do, both in the US and [...]
I am from Los Angeles, California. I grew up in California, went to Berkeley in the 60s, and was a full-fledged hippie. I love to travel and have been blessed to see a lot of the world, including recently living and working in Madurai, India and Kisumu, Africa. I worked in both places as a psychotherapist training [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Recently BeadforLife has had the opportunity to collaborate with AVON, selling blue, red, and earth tone bangle bracelets through their catalog. We did this in order to create a larger demand for our Beaders to make jewelry and to broaden our reach to other women throughout the country. Our collaboration with AVON allowed us to [...]
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