Since 2004, BeadforLife has changed the lives of women struggling in Uganda In 2011, Teddy Namuyiga was desperate. She was living with her three daughters outside Kampala, Uganda, on less than $1 a ...
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s impossible not to be struck by the colorful beaded necklaces and bracelets that Joan Ahimbisibwe and Teddy Namuyiga are wearing. They’ve layered on what ...
A chance encounter in a slum on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, led to a project that helps some of Uganda's poorest women sell handmade paper-bead necklaces in North America. In 2004, ...
After work one Thursday, a group of women friends gathered for Chardonnay and goat cheese at a posh home in Los Altos. A veritable pirate's booty of colorful beaded jewelry was piled on the dining ...