A non-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado and Kampala, Uganda dedicated to helping women rise out of extreme poverty by training them to create beads from recycled paper into jewelry. The jewelry is sold at Bead For Life parties throughout the world. Bead For Life also provides business development training, affordable housing, vocational training for youth and sponsor projects in health as well. For more information about Bead For Life and to read and hear stories from the beaders please click here.

An organization dedicated to the education and preservation of the practices of indigenous weavers around the world, WeavingWomen.org seeks to share the native wisdom through photography, storytelling, education, and indigenous craft. For more information about Weaving Women please click here.

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