Women Making A Difference
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 [...]
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 [...]
On the morning of 30 October 2010, Aine Margaret, a BeadforLife, Unity group member, was going home after her regular Sunday church service; she did not take her usual route. As she passed by one of the many garbage dumps, a dog started to bark and growl at her, she wondered if the dog had [...]
I have been volunteering with BeadforLife for about a year. Through my volunteer work, I have been fortunate to contribute to two of BeadforLife’s goals—the sale of beads to support sustainable programs in Uganda and the education of people in the U.S. about extreme poverty. I first volunteered for BeadforLife during the national I Volunteer [...]
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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 [...]