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 ...

Upper left corner of the Hawk Shop kiosk. Those aren't just “football beads.” They're a way to help people. The beads - made of recycled paper carefully cut into long strips, rolled around a needle ...

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: ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches, the idea of sending love from afar is catching on, and the Boston University World Affairs Forum is looking to send affection all the way to Africa. The group is selling ...

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 ...

It’s not often one will stumble into a fashion design business while working with a charity in Uganda. But it happened to Kallie Dovel, a 2008 graduate of Vanguard University in Costa Mesa. Uganda is ...

Devin Hibbard was walking through the slums of Uganda when she saw a woman named Millie sitting on her front stoop rolling trash paper into tight little beads. At the time, Hibbard (College Eight ’95, ...

Kampala — TWO years ago, Mary Naiga, 27, was living in a mud hovel in a slum called Acholi Quarters in Banda, a Kampala suburb. She supported her four children by begging neighbours to let her do ...

Ndereka shows a sample of the clothes she is working on with artisans to sell in the mainstream market. Remarkably, Margret Ndekera is not that hung up about her most well-known innovation, the paper ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)- A major bulk of the beads you catch during Mardi Gras are the plastic ones from China, but a group called Our Place Promotions “Throw Me Something Green” is hoping to change the ...

IOWA CITY -- Upper left corner of the kiosk. Those aren't just "football" beads. They are a way to help people. The upper left corner of the beads kiosk at the Hawk Shop in Iowa City. Those are the ...