Dear Friends,

Last month, with graduation season fast approaching, we sat down to plan a donation campaign for our Girls Education Program. We thought sending a girl to school in Uganda would be a perfect, meaningful way to honor a teacher or graduate, and we started to write this email to tell you so.

Then we heard the news from Nigeria.

We were heartbroken and shocked by the Boko Haram kidnapping of over 200 female students and are standing by those who are working to #BringBackOurGirls. This horrific crime to deny girls their education and force them into slavery underscores the need for girls’ education programs even more.

As Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times says, "We can stick it to Boko Haram by helping to educate a girl.”

Girls’ education correlates to later age of marriage, improved health and child survival, and even higher GDP for a entire country.

We believe that now more than ever, we should stand with girls everywhere, and invite you to stand with us. Now is a time to rally around their ongoing education and to unite in the belief that every girl deserves to dream big.

If you want to donate to our program—which sponsors bright but impoverished girls in Uganda through secondary school—you can donate here. Or you can host a Bead Party in honor of Girls Education—just enter the Promo Code: GIRLS when you register to apply the proceeds directly to a scholarship.

Whether you support our program or engage with other international groups supporting girl’s education around the world, we thank you. At the end of the day, we’re all in this together.

Sincerely,

Devin Hibbard
Executive Director, BeadforLife


Our address is:
wwww.beadforlife.org

BeadforLife
2336 Canyon Blvd Suite 202
Boulder, CO 80302






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