Buy a Bead, Change the World

Check out the My World Wish website, where the simple purchase of a "wish bead" will fund crucial aid programs around the world. The beads are hand formed by the women of Kazuri, outside Nairobi, Kenya. Kazuri only hires disadvantaged women such as widows, single mothers, or the handicapped. They pay three times the average wage in Kenya, provide healthcare, savings plans, daycare, and are members of the Fair Trade Act. The beads are strung on a knotted brown silk cord and hand knotted by local villagers in a sister project in Cambodia. There, the workers make five times the average daily wage, and are further supported with schooling fees for their children and doctors visits. The sales of these beads so far have funded a children's home in Argentina, an orphanage in Mexico, a hospital in Cambodia, a gardening project in Senegal to meet the nutritional needs of AIDS patients, and even funded gifts of cows to widows in Kenya, changing their lives from poverty to self-sustaining in one day. There are other ambitious wish projects in development, and all are financed by the wish bead purchases. Buy a bead today at My World Wish or find out more about the sponsor organization at Global Colors.