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The BeadforLife story is uplifting, full of individuals overcoming huge challenges to leave poverty behind. Ours is a story of an accidental beginning that has grown into a passionate service and effective poverty eradication organization. We welcome all media and are happy to offer assistance, story angles, high quality photographs and more in-depth information.

Press Contacts:
Amy Yanda, publicist
Torkin Wakefield, Co-Executive Director

The New York Times

The New York Times March 2010
Partying to Change the World
Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times
December 2009
Give two gifts in one
Woman's World Magazine
June 2009
Interview with Torkin Wakefield
Here on Earth radio
May 2009
Jewelry with a cause
The TODAY Show on NBC
May 2009
BeadforLife inclusion in New Stuff section
Today's Black Woman
April 2009
BeadforLife program helps lift Ugandans out of poverty
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
March 2009
Getting out of poverty by making paper beads
The Huffington Post
January 2009
Meet the women of Uganda's Friendship Village
HDNet TV
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December 2008
Connected by a string of beads through the BeadforLife program
The Seattle Times


July 2008
Bead-making helps Ugandan women shed poverty
The San Francisco Chronicle
ntv
March 2008
Profiles edition (Video clip)
NTV Uganda
Spring 2008
5-page fashion spread modelling with Beads
African Woman Magazine
November 2007
Pass It On column
Guideposts Magazine
November 2007
Green Holiday Gift Guide
Kiwi Magazine
July/Aug 2007
A Storyteller's Journey in Africa

Storytelling Magazine
October 31, 2007
In Africa, a papercraft path out of poverty

The Christian Science Monitor
June, 2007
The Africa Issue
Vanity Fair Magazine
June, 2007
Infotech - going, going everywhere
Business Week Magazine
May, 2007
Making a Difference
NBC Nightly News
March, 2007
Between the Lines
Sojourners Magazine
February, 2007
Bead For Life: Helping Ugandan women out of poverty
Seattle Woman Magazine
July, 2006
Beads help lift African women out of poverty
The Capital Annapolis, MD
Spring, 2006
Accessorizing their way out of poverty: How paper beads
can change a life

African Woman
May, 2006
Treasures from Afar: How a souvenir necklace inspired
three women to improve the lives of Uganda families

Family Circle
March, April, 2006
Beading for their lives
World and I
Nov/December, 2005
Feel-Good Fashion
Sierra Club Magazine
October, 2005
Fashion Fights Poverty
Washington Examiner
August, 2005
The Beaders Tale
Utne Reader
February, 2005
From Uganda to Boulder: Friends start BeadforLife to
help women in Africa improve their lives
Daily Camera
January, 2005
Beads for Life: Two Coloradans discover a way to help
the women of Uganda, one colorful bead at a time.
Denver Post
December, 2004
Beads of Hope
O Magazine