BeadforLife provides support to a limited number of other non profit groups doing work in the areas of poverty eradication. In 2007 we supported the following:

Millennium Promise

 

The Millennium Village Project, sponsored by the United Nations, has sites in 10 African countries, and provides an integrated range of interventions to a village site with the goal of reducing extreme poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. BeadforLife supports the work of the Millennium Village in Southwestern Uganda benefiting 20,000 people. www.unmillenniumproject.org

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinic, Mulago Hospital

 

The Peidatric Infectious Disease Clinic provides medical and psycho-social care for
Children living with HIV/AIDS. BeadforLife sponsored their HIV+ Teen Club which has 200 members.  We also provide vocational training for impoverished out-of-school youth from this program.

 

Power of Hope

 

The Power of Hope is a  youth empowerment organization located in Washington and British Columbia. Their facilitators came to Uganda and trained youth workers and put on a camp for 50 adolescents living with HIV/AIDS.  The curriculum features leadership development, activisim, and creativity for a stronger Uganda.
www.powerofhope.org

Hope Ward at the International Hospital of Kampala

 

Through this grant a bed is sponsored at the International Hospital of Kampala, one of the finest hospitals in Uganda. BeadforLife refers impoverished people in need of hospitalization and complicated surgery or chemotherapy.  www.img.co.ug

The man at the right received surgery sponsored by BeadforLife to correct elephantiasis which he has suffered from for many years.


Soroti Clinic for Internally Displaced People

 

The Soroti Clinic provides primary medical care to people from Northern Uganda who have fled the war and have been settled in camps for internally displaced people. Through this grant primary medical care, including prenatal, post partum, and child health services are provided.


Uganda Children Cancer Foundation

 

 

The Foundation provides treatment to children suffering from Burkett's Lymphoma, a cancer that affects children between the ages of 3-15. This cancer is highly responsive to treatment with a cure rate of 90%.

At right is a child sponsored by BFL for chemo therapy for the treatment of Burkett's Lymphoma


 

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