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\nBy: Beth Stauffer<\/em>
\nThis is the first in a three part series featuring ideas for unique Christmas gifts. Up next will be a feature about the top online gifts of 2012 followed by a feature about gift giving that simultaneously supports locally owned New Haven businesses.
\nLooking for something different to gift someone special with in your life? Have a woman on your shopping list that is hard to shop for or already has everything they need? Want to give a gift that gives back this Christmas? Then I have an unusual suggestion for you.
\nBead For Life is an international, non-profit organization that works to eradicate poverty in the lives of women in Uganda. Bead For Life accomplishes this, according to its website, by \u201ccreating sustainable opportunities for women to lift their families out of extreme poverty by connecting people worldwide in a circle of exchange that enriches everyone.\u201d
\nIn layman\u2019s terms, this means that impoverished Ugandan women are given an opportunity to learn a trade while earning a steady source of income, enabling the women to change their lives. Ugandan women participating in the Beading Program are taught how to roll beads from recycled paper sources and then create beautiful, handmade necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. Last year alone, over 12,000 Ugandans living in households with the 1,400 program participants were positively influenced by the Bead For Life program.
\nLast week, local radio station WBCL 90.3 FM hosted the first ever \u2018Bead For Life\u2019 event of its kind at The Summit (formerly the campus of Taylor University) Fort Wayne.\u00a0 According to Lynn Ford, WBCL\u2019s Mid-Morning Host, \u201cWe were shocked to find out that there has never been a radio station in the country to host a Bead For Life party for its listeners. Since the two main ways that Bead For Life sells its jewelry is online or at a Bead For Life party, sort of similar to a Tupperware Party, we felt this was an extraordinary opportunity to come alongside Bead For Life and support them.\u201d
\nIndeed, that is exactly what happened as WBCL\u2019s listeners attended the Bead For Life party at The Summit in droves, purchasing over 1,800 pieces of jewelry with sales totaling over $14,000 for the Bead For Life ministry. \u201cOur listeners have responded like crazy,\u201d said Ms. Ford of the event, adding \u201cNot just because of the jewelry, but because of what it does. It literally changes the lives of women and their families.\u201d
\n\u201cOne of the things that sets bead for life apart is that 92% of what Bead For Life raises goes directly to the women in Uganda. Only 8% is used for overhead and fundraising. That\u2019s almost unheard of in non-profits,\u201d said Ms. Ford of the organization. In addition to its not-for-profit status, Bead For Life is also a member of the Fair Trade Federation and a provisional member of the World Fair Trade Organization.
\nEven though WBCL\u2019s Bead For Life party has passed, there is still plenty of time to order Christmas gifts through the Bead For Life website www.beadforlifestore.org.
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