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 ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Laker Fatuma’s big smile threatens to turn up the wattage in the already bright Ugandan sky as she rolls bright-green beads in the shade of a mango tree. Fatuma has reason to smile: ...

A group of refugee women in Uganda string their way out of poverty by making necklaces with recycled materials.Photo courtesy of Charles Steinberg A group of refugee women in Uganda have been ...

BeadforLife, a Boulder-based nonprofit that teaches women living in Uganda to make and sell beads, has moved to a new building on Canyon Boulevard. With the office expansion, the nonprofit began new ...

A program that helps Ugandans sell beads in America has brought hundreds of families out of extreme poverty through a woman-to-woman network focused on sales at house parties and a Web store. Spencer ...

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 ...

Last night, some friends and I hosted a BeadforLife BeadParty and were awestruck by the amount of people who came out from the community. Thanks to all the generous attendees who purchased the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In eight years, BeadforLife has grown from a small nonprofit organization run by three Boulder women to an organization with $5.4 million in sales of beaded ...

It all began as “one bead at a time”– an inspirational model of sustainability in Uganda that has been helping women lift themselves from poverty for five years. Today, it evolves to “one student at a ...

Mary Ogwang used to live in a one-room house made of metal in Kampala, Uganda, with her 11 children and husband, a police officer who earns about $2 a day. Then she learned about BeadforLife, a ...