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
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| The New York Times |
March 2010
Partying to Change the World
Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times |
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December 2009
Give two gifts in one
Woman's World Magazine |
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June 2009
Interview with Torkin Wakefield
Here on Earth radio |
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May 2009
Jewelry with a cause
The TODAY Show on NBC |
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May 2009
BeadforLife inclusion in New Stuff section
Today's Black Woman |
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April 2009
BeadforLife program helps lift Ugandans out of poverty
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer |
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March 2009
Getting out of poverty by making paper beads
The Huffington Post |
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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 |
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July 2008
Bead-making helps Ugandan women shed poverty
The San Francisco Chronicle |
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March 2008
Profiles edition (Video clip)
NTV Uganda |
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Spring 2008
5-page fashion spread modelling with Beads
African Woman Magazine
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November 2007
Pass It On column
Guideposts Magazine |
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November 2007
Green Holiday Gift Guide
Kiwi Magazine |
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July/Aug 2007
A Storyteller's Journey in Africa
Storytelling Magazine |
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October 31, 2007
In Africa, a papercraft path out of poverty
The Christian Science Monitor |
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June, 2007
The Africa Issue
Vanity Fair
Magazine |
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June, 2007
Infotech - going, going everywhere
Business Week Magazine |
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May, 2007
Making a Difference
NBC
Nightly News |
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March, 2007
Between the Lines
Sojourners Magazine |
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February, 2007
Bead For Life: Helping Ugandan women out of poverty
Seattle Woman
Magazine |
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July, 2006
Beads help lift African women out of poverty
The Capital Annapolis, MD |
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Spring, 2006
Accessorizing their way out of poverty: How paper beads
can change
a life
African
Woman |
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May, 2006
Treasures from Afar: How a souvenir necklace inspired
three women
to improve the lives of Uganda families
Family Circle |
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March, April, 2006
Beading for their lives
World and I |
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Nov/December, 2005
Feel-Good Fashion
Sierra Club Magazine |
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October, 2005
Fashion Fights Poverty
Washington Examiner |
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August, 2005
The Beaders Tale
Utne Reader |
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February,
2005
From Uganda to Boulder: Friends start BeadforLife to
help women in Africa
improve their lives
Daily Camera |
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January,
2005
Beads for Life: Two Coloradans discover a way to help
the women
of Uganda, one colorful bead at a time.
Denver Post |
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December, 2004
Beads of Hope
O Magazine |