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Our Mission
BEADS mission is to enhance the status of women in the community and to promote environmental awareness with a goal of preserving natural resources. BEADS programs provide school scholarships for African girls, promote business development for African women and support conservation through education.
 

October 2009 Update: Famine Relief
A perpetual drought has plunged the Kenyan people into a dire state of emergency.
Please click here to learn about our Famine Relief Program

 

The Dupoto Women's Group
Established 1993
Isinya, Kenya

Kenyan School Sponsorships
Since 1998

  The Dupoto Women’s Group is a BEADS project now consisting of 25 women who produce high quality beaded dog collars, coasters, trivets, headbands, baskets and key fobs which are marketed by volunteers in the United States. All of the profit is returned to the women’s collective. This is their primary source of income and these women support over 128 children (as of Sept '04). Due to their success, the Dupoto Women’s Group has received funding from USAID and has been selected as a role model for other women’s groups in Kenya.
Click here to learn more about the Group! 

This is Entito, a 10 year old Maasai girl living in Kenya. Entito will probably be forced into an arranged marriage at age 13 to a 30 plus year old man, be his 2^nd or 3^rd wife and bear 7 or more children….BUT ENTITO WANTS TO ATTEND SCHOOL, click here to learn how you can help!.

Click here to Meet Other Girls to Sponsor!

Break the Chains of Illiteracy Walkathon 2010
100 Kilometers - ISINYA TO AMBOSELI, KENYA
JANUARY 2 - 18, 2010

Meet & Greet the Walkers
 

Support the Break the Chains of Illiteracy Campaign
Buy a Key Chain Keep a Girl in School
Click here!