Report on a Great Weekend

We had such a great weekend with the two conferences at the Vancouver Convention Centre on Friday and Saturday. We were an amazing team consisting of both of us and the three Eberle sisters. We were hoping for good sales by promoting education for the girls of Uganda,  by many conversations about Bead For Life and  to make good contacts for the future events.

We intended to emphasize the promotion of education for the girls of Uganda to make our sales and solicit donations.

And we had Great Sales and experienced  a spirit of generosity.

We made excellent contacts: a retreat center that wants to retail Bead for Life items in their small gift store, a Chinese tv cable company from Toronto that may follow up with a feature on BFL and we received two invitations to  f different conventions and to speak for 15 minutes at one of them

Our young women, two college students and a h.s. senior excelled in sales and sharing the story of the Bead for Life women of Uganda. At 5:45 p.m. Saturday, having worked since 8 a.m., they were still demonstrating how to roll beads from recycled paper as the first step to making a beautiful bracelet.  They are eager to do it again. They and Mary Jo were excellent in asking for donations for girls education from interested  people who were not going to buy jewelry on those occasions 

In hindsight what a brilliant decision to have them promoting Girls Education as an effective way of countering extreme poverty one bead at a time. How hard is it to turn down an encouragement to buy a Girls Education Bangle from such fine young women who are exemplary products of good educational opportunities.

We do it all for you, beautiful young people of Uganda, for your mothers and grandmothers.. 

http://www.beadforlife.org/

maryjo.dawe@gmail.com