"According to the U.N. there are an estimated 120 million street children in the world- 120 million children sleeping alone and cold at night under bridges, in trees, or in any filthy hiding place they can find. These children have no one to love them; they feel completely forgotten and abandoned in the world. Street children are the "perfect injustice" and no child should ever be alone on the streets. Hope for street children exists so that every street child in Kampala Uganda could know they are loved unconditionally, and live out the amazing God given potential inside of them." www.hopeforstreetchildren.com
Aren't the beads absolutely fabulous!!!!
She has been doing this for many years, anyways, now these beads are becoming very popular and Reef has started putting these beads on sandals. Their Ugandal sandals sell for between $40.00-$60.00. Reef is only giving the women making them 1% of the proceeds, you do the math, that is hardly anything for them. They talk about it being fair trade, but is this really a fair trade. The proceeds from the jewelry I sell for my cousin all goes back to them. The sandals, and the beads my cousin's boys do in the home, are in no way related. We need to really care about and love these marginalized people, not just turn what they do into a moneymaking market for ourselves.
You can look at my cousin's blog at www.africa-love.livejournal.com. You can order beads and read more about her on www.globalhoperesources.org, Or you can contact me to order some of the jewelry also. There are bone bracelets and earrings and beaded necklaces, bracelets and earrings. The pictures at the top are actual pictures of the jewelry I have right now.
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